Today the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Arkady Dvorkovich visited the FIDE stand at the SportAccord Convention, World Sport and Business Summit in Sochi. David Jarrett, former FIDE Treasurer,and Berik Balgabaev, the Director of FIDE Representative office in Russia, thanked him for his work in organization of two major FIDE events in Sochi: World Chess Championship Match between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanthan Anand in November 2014 and Women’s World Championship in March-April 2015. He was presented with a book of the World Chess Championship Match and he added a kind dedication

“It is Russia’s great honor to organize big FIDE events in Olympic Sochi and other Russian cities! Hope for continuous cooperation in the development of world chess!
Thank you!
Arkady Dvorkovich!”