– This is a middle finger from Karjakin, concludes Berit Lindeman to news. She is secretary general of the Helsinki Committee, and she also knows the world of sport well from her role as a member of the Norwegian Football Association’s ethics committee. – It is completely reprehensible that he is allowed to play international tournaments, she believes. news told Saturday that the chess profile’s ban is over. He himself announces the news wearing a sweater with the Vladimir Putin logo on the chest. Lindeman is unimpressed – both by Karjakin and by the International Chess Federation (FIDE). GENERAL SECRETARY: Berit Lindeman. Photo: nhc.no – He is an open supporter of the war. It is almost difficult to take Fide seriously, says Lindeman. Karjakin was banned for six months for making several statements supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin and the country’s invasion of Ukraine. – Fide’s argument is that he cannot be punished for the same misdeed twice. Do they have a point? – He has not stopped what he was banned for. He continues to support the war. There are no mitigating circumstances here, replies the Secretary-General, who has worked with democracy building and human rights in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Azerbaijan, among others. I think the chess profile is deliberately provocative. news’s chess expert Torstein Bae has also caught the Karjakin news. He believes that the choice of sweater is anything but random: – The choice of clothes is of course deliberately provocative, he says. – Does this look like a repentant sinner? – I guess he has not acknowledged any sin, so it would have been strange if he had shown remorse, points out Bae. CHESS EXPERT: Torstein Bae Photo: Erik Johansen / NTB Fide’s vice-president Jøran Aulin-Jansson told news on Saturday that national federations must file a complaint against Karjakin again, if a new ban is to be applied. Bae doesn’t think such a complaint will wait. – It is reasonable to assume that he will soon be sued again, concludes the chess expert. Does not rule out Karjakin games in Norway Kristine Marie Ganz, general secretary of the Norwegian Chess Federation, says that the Norwegian federation has not yet spoken about this matter. She therefore does not know how they would have handled it if a tournament in Norway had received a participation request from Karjakin. – In general, we have taken Fide’s line which says that Russian players can participate, but not under the Russian flag. But it is more difficult with players who openly support Putin, she admits. – We are going to take a look at this internally, adds Ganz. She does not rule out that some national federations may submit a complaint to Fide. – I do not disregard that it is done, concludes the general secretary, who thinks it is too early to say whether Norway will be among the confederations that may complain. Fide will not be opinion police The Norwegian vice-president of Fide does not agree with the opinion that Karjakin is deliberately trying to provoke. – It has been a poorly hidden secret for a long time that Karjakin is a Putin supporter, says Jøran Aulin-Jansson. VICE PRESIDENT OF FIDE: Jøran Aulin-Jansson. Photo: Berit Roald / NTB He is surprised that the strong reactions are coming now, considering that it has always been open how long the Russian would be banned. – But is it okay for him to continue with what he was banned for? – It is important to remember that he was banned for an opinion, not an action, and there is a limit to how long you can ban someone for saying something we disagree with. If we start to become opinion police, then we are getting closer we don’t want to be, the Norwegian points out. He has no information on whether any national federations have so far submitted a complaint to Fide, but has by no means ruled out that it will happen.
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