Elections for the Russian Chess Federation President will take place in Moscow on 3rd February 2018. The list of the candidates for the RCF President’s office includes K. Ilyumzhinov, Z. Malsagov, S. Nesterov, I. Starikov, E. Suboch and A. Filatov.
Dmitry Peskov, the Press Secretary for the President of Russia and the Head of the Trustees Board of the RCF, said that the Trustees Board of the RCF is supporting the candidacy of A. Filatov to the position of the Russian Chess Federation President.