“One of the world’s top chess players, Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin, has been banned for six months by the International Chess Federation for publicly declaring his support for Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine,” the Washington Post reports.
Russian Chess Champion Banned from Competition
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