#StandWithUkraine
Coach of the World 2D Chess Champion from 2007-2023
Apr 7 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
I want to express my sincere appreciation to @CovingtonLLP for their invaluable help in our recent CAS case representing the Ukrainian🇺🇦 Chess Federation.
At the same time, I want to share what a unique experience it was working with them. 🧵
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We had handled the case ourselves within FIDE’s internal system.
But CAS was a completely different level.
Our opponents had vast resources—top Russian🇷🇺 & Swiss🇨🇭 law firms, backed by major funding.
We had… nothing.
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Aug 30, 2025 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
FIDE has been caught redhanded editing out English🏴support for Ukraine🇺🇦!
A soundfile has emerged, documenting the ECF 🏴President’s impassioned address, providing evidence of how Russian🇷🇺-led FIDE attempted to erase from the record the English support for Ukraine🇺🇦
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At the Opening Ceremony of the FIDE World R+B Team Championship in London in June, ECF President Dominic Lawson made a forthright speech, comparing the Nazi V-Bomb attacks on London in 1944 that killed Vera Menchik, to today’s Russian 🇷🇺 ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv🇺🇦 2/6
