Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov (Russian: Кирса́н Никола́евич Илюмжи́нов; Oirat: Үлүмҗин Кирсан; born April 5 1962) is a Kalmyk multi-millionaire businessman and politician. He was the President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010 and he has been the President of FIDE (or the World Chess Federation) the world’s pre-eminent international chess organization since 1995. He has also been in the forefront of promoting chess in schools in Russia and overseas.
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