Kremlin Asked to Probe Kalmyk Leader's Visit With Aliens

[Lars77]

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/kremlin-asked-to-probe-kalmyk-leaders-visit-with-aliens/405472.html

A State Duma deputy has called on President Dmitry Medvedev to check whether Kalmyk leader Kirsan Ilyumzhinov might have divulged state secrets to aliens whom he claimed to have met in 1997.

Ilyumzhinov, 48, a flamboyant politician known for throwing expensive chess extravaganzas since becoming president of the Buddhist republic in southern Russia in 1993, will finish his fourth term in office in October, and Medvedev will have to decide whether to appoint him for another five years.


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I wonder what an expensive chess extravaganza looks like!

[Oregone]

1. Sharing secrets? Don't the little green men have this stuff all figured out?

Itd be like a caveman sharing the blueprints of his hammer with modern man.

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Doesn't this belong on my chess report in the sports forum?

Kirsan is, after all, the president of FIDE, the world governing body of chess, and has been since the mid-nineties. He has made a royal mess of the royal game. He is the George W. Bush of chess.

I have a few thoughts about Kirsan here.