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(1) MOSCOW, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Arkady Dvorkovich, President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), presented Andrey Guryev, Vice-President of the Russian Chess Federation, with a gold medal for the significant contribution he has made to the development of the chess movement in Russia and abroad. The award marked the Russian National Team s victory in FIDE s first ever online chess olympiad. The FIDE Online Olympiad held last summer was the largest tournament consisting of national teams ever held in a pandemic. It was a truly global competition, with 163 teams and over 1,500 chess players taking part. Presenting the medal, FIDE President and Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Arkady Dvorkovich, said that PhosAgro s support as a permanent general partner of the Chess Federation of Russia helped the Russian national team to put on an excellent game and secure a well-deserved victory. ....
Not campaign related. and he didn t meet with any russian officials. you say you only met with academics, essentially, when you were on your trip to russia? and a few business people who i d known for over a decade, yeah. but page s testimony tells a different story. saying he interacted with the russian deputy prime minister, vorkovich, and he wrote an e-mail to the trump campaign last july that he gained some incredible insights and outreach from a few russian legislators and senior members of the president s administration here. he even floated the idea that trump traveled to russia. and he acknowledged a meeting with a top executive of an energy giant, rosnef. and he acknowledged that he met with another executive on that trip in an attempt to broker a deal to ease sanctions. but page denies he s part of any quid pro quo with the company. ....
And he was appointed in 2012. he s considered a very important figure in russian politic, he was apparently there after carter page gave this speak at the new economics school to do a meet and grief. he said hello briefly. they met for a few moments and said our greeting lasted longer than my meeting with dvorkovich. he consistently tried to downplay his interaction with arkady. there is a question now of why this is coming out. we also this week from the unsealed court documents that trump campaign foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos, he, indeed, pled guilty of lying to the fbi about. that we ve learned about this meeting on march 31 of last year, when he floated the idea to then candidate trump, do you want me to set up a meeting with russian president vladimir ....