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CONSTRUCTION OF INTERNATIONAL CHESS ACADEMY TO BEGIN IN ARMENIA IN SPRING 2013
YEREVAN, January 21. /ARKA/. International Chess Federation (FIDE)
President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, speaking Saturday at FIDE board's
session in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia, said he, along with Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan, who is also the president of Armenian
National Chess Federation, will attend the ceremony of the cornerstone
laying ceremony for construction of the International Chess Academy
building in Yerevan.
Novosti-Armenia quotes him as saying that investors and businessmen
from Moscow and Europe meet with the Yerevan mayor now and search a
place for the construction.
Ilyumzhinov said that Businessmen, who are members of the board, came
to Armenia with him and discussed also prospects for investments in
construction of a garbage-recycling plant, power plants and a hotel.
"We have brought a total of $100-million investments with to
Armenia," he said. "This is not a small amount. This is new jobs and
taxes." Ilyumzhinov also said that not only chess, but Armenia as a
whole is vigorously developing now.
"In three of the last four Olympiads, golden medals have been pulled
off by Armenian chess players," he said. "This result has naturally
come from the titanic everyday work of the chess federation and the
entire state."
He said that sportsmen are not able to win Olympic gold without
support from the government. -0-
YEREVAN, January 21. /ARKA/. International Chess Federation (FIDE)
President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, speaking Saturday at FIDE board's
session in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia, said he, along with Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan, who is also the president of Armenian
National Chess Federation, will attend the ceremony of the cornerstone
laying ceremony for construction of the International Chess Academy
building in Yerevan.
Novosti-Armenia quotes him as saying that investors and businessmen
from Moscow and Europe meet with the Yerevan mayor now and search a
place for the construction.
Ilyumzhinov said that Businessmen, who are members of the board, came
to Armenia with him and discussed also prospects for investments in
construction of a garbage-recycling plant, power plants and a hotel.
"We have brought a total of $100-million investments with to
Armenia," he said. "This is not a small amount. This is new jobs and
taxes." Ilyumzhinov also said that not only chess, but Armenia as a
whole is vigorously developing now.
"In three of the last four Olympiads, golden medals have been pulled
off by Armenian chess players," he said. "This result has naturally
come from the titanic everyday work of the chess federation and the
entire state."
He said that sportsmen are not able to win Olympic gold without
support from the government. -0-