The Swiss-based FIDE has been accused of dragging out Russia's suspension after the Court of Arbitration for Sport, an international tribunal, in April ruled that Russia should be expelled.

The European Union is calling for financial sanctions on the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian head of the world chess federation, a historian who is a close…

Arkady Dvorkovich, the head of the FIDE chess federation, should be banned because he "publicly supported" the war in Ukraine, the EU Commission said in its proposal for the 21st…