Chess-players support Belarusian protests

These days, a lot of chess-players openly support the massive Belarusian protests: the head of the Belarusian Chess Federation Anastasia Sorokina, the country's top grandmaster Sergei Zhigalko, the 13th world champion Garry Kasparov, the grandmaster, European women's champion 2011 and MP of the Republic of Lithuania, Viktorija Cmilyte-Nielsen and many, many others.


On 16th August 2020 my wife Lyudmila Zakharova and I supported the Belarusian protests, participating in the action near Statue of the Duc de Richelieu in Odessa, Ukraine.
Video - 7 Canal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Q9DXq8cXc

A Little History
In 1997, Alexander Lukashenko, who was the Belarusian president already by then, was also elected the president of the country's Olympic Committee. And, among 116 people, the only person who voted against this decision in the Belarusian Olympic Committee was the late Viktor Kupreichik, a legendary grandmaster. Kommersant 1997 report on this (in Russian language) can be found at: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/177788