In recent news, the New York Times recently reported:

“On his campaign site, Ilyumzhinov recently announced that 50 national federations have pledged to vote for him. Karpov’s campaign site does not announce the number of federations, but it has a rolling roster of 23 flags. One curiosity is that both sites list Russia and Honduras as supporters, and they cannot both be right as each country gets one vote. (The fight for the endorsement of Russia has been particularly contentious.)” – The P.R. Blitz for the Presidency (New York Times)

Well, right they are! We count with the support of more National Federations (we have published 55 so far and more are on the way)!

However, let there be NO MISTAKE, no bits of ‘curiosity’ here…

THE CHOICE IS CLEAR FOR RUSSIA…RUSSIA’S ONLY CHOICE IS KIRSAN ILYUMZHINOV!

Stay tuned for more from our campaign!

Please see the letter of support below:

(English Translation)

June, 28 2010 Moscow

Dear Sirs,

In accordance with the decision of the Supervisory board of the Russian Chess federation (RCF), the meeting was held on June 28th, 2010, the present confirms the letter send by me on April 21st, 2010 about nomination of the candidate from RCF on the elections for office of the FIDE President during FIDE Congress in Khanty-Mansiysk (2010).

Best regards.

Chairman of the Supervisory board

A. Dvorkovich