Ukraine war: Poland refuses to play Russia World Cup qualifying match after Moscow's invasion
Poland's star striker Robert Lewandowski has backed his country's refusal to play Russia in a World Cup qualifier next month.
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India To Bid To Host This Year's Chess Olympiad
The All India Chess Federation (AICF) will be bidding to host the 44th edition of the Chess Olympiad later this year after the event was moved out of Russia, a senior official of the body said on Saturday. "Yeah, we are bidding for the chess Olympiad this year. The budget for the event would be USD 10 million (about Rs 75 crore)," AICF secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan told PTI. The Chess Olympiad is a biennial team event, in which teams from some 190 countries compete for honours over a two-week period.
Poland refuse to play Russia in 2022 World Cup playoff game
Poland are refusing to play their World Cup qualifier against Russia in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Polish soccer federation president Cezary Kulesza said on Saturday.
India bidding to host Chess Olympiad 2022
chess federation is bidding to host the 44th Chess Olympiad that has been moved out of Russia, said a senior official of All India Chess Federation (AICF). "We are bidding to host the Chess Olympiad this time. The event budget will be about Rs 75 crore," Bharat Singh Chauhan, Secretary, AICF told IANS. If India wins the bid, then the Chess Olympiad will be the second major global chess competition that would be held in the country after 2013. In 2013 the World Chess Championship was held between the then defending champion India's Viswanathan Anand and the then challenger Magnus Carlsen from Norway. The Chess Olympiad is a biennial team event, in which teams from approximately 190 countries compete for two weeks.
EU to consider Russia's expulsion from SWIFT in third sanctions package
Russia's expulsion from SWIFT, the widely-used system of financial transactions, is back on the table for a third round of EU sanctions, despite previous attempts to exclude it.
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