ロシアのチェス名手、半年間の資格停止　侵攻支持する発言

【ＡＦＰ＝時事】国際チェス連盟（ＦＩＤＥ）は２１日、母国ロシアによるウクライナ侵攻を公に支持したとして、グランドマスターのセルゲイ・カヤキンに６か月の資格停止処分を科したと発表した。（写真はセルゲイ・カヤキン）
　ＦＩＤＥの倫理委員会は、カヤキンのソーシャルメディア上での発言が競技の評判を落としたと判断した。
　３２歳のカヤキンは、ロシアのウラジーミル・プーチン大統領支持を公言している選手で、現在は世界ランキング１８位につけている。
　本人は同日、ＦＩＤＥの決定は「恥ずべきものだ」とメッセージアプリのテレグラムで非難。「何も後悔していない」と言うカヤキンは、自身は第一に愛国主義者であり、チェス選手であることは二の次だと述べた。
　ロシアのチェス連盟は、今回の処分は「差別」だとして反発し、すでに異議を申し立てる意向を示している。
　ＦＩＤＥは先日、ロシアとベラルーシ代表の大会出場を停止したが、両国選手の個人での大会参加継続は認めている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/03/22-11:22）

Leading Russian chess grandmaster Sergey Karjakin has been suspended from playing for six months for publicly supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the game's world governing body FIDE announced Monday.
The organisation's ethics committee found that Karjakin, who in 2016 challenged world champion Magnus Carlsen for the title, had brought the game into disrepute with his comments on social media.
The 32-year-old player is an outspoken supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
His statements on the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine has led to a considerable number of reactions on social media and elsewhere, most of the rejecting Karjakin's views, said FIDE.
Karjakin had published a letter backing Russia's intervention, saying he hoped it would achieve the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine echoing the position taken by Moscow, the ruling noted.
Karjakin also tweeted pictures of what he said were Ukrainian soldiers holding a photo of Adolph Hitler, commenting: This is Ukraine, the ruling added.
Karjakin is currently ranked 18th in the world. But the ban means he will not be able to take his place as one of the eight players at the Madrid candidates tournament in June to compete for the right to challenge Carlsen for the title.
On Monday, Karjakin denounced what he said was FIDE's shameful ruling, posting from his Telegram account.
I regret nothing, he wrote, saying he was first and foremost a patriot and a chess player second.
Russia's chess federation has already said it will appeal the ruling, denouncing what it said was discrimination.
Last Wednesday, FIDE suspended the Russian and Belarusian national teams from chess tournaments, while allowing individual players from those countries to continue to compete.
Monday's ruling cleared another Russia player, Sergei Shipov, of similar charges, saying his comments had been less provocative than those of Karjakin, and that he was not as well known and so had far less of an audience.