Interview with Mr. Jenő Kamuti, President of the International Fair Play Committee on the occasion of the World Fair Play Day on 7 September.

The Organizing Committee of the World Fair Play Day held an online meeting where the final refinements were made. On 7 September 2020 the World Fair Play Day will be announced in Brussels.

Budapest would have hosted the leading professional conference of the International University Sports Federation, the FISU Forum, on 12-14 of August. Unfortunately the event could not be organised in reality due to the situation caused by COVID-19, thus the Forum had to be settled online, for the first time in history of the FISU. 

by Nickolai Dolgopolov

The members of the national Russian chess team donated 25 million rubles of prize money to hospitals in distant regions. COVID-19 attacked Russia later than other European countries. Now the situation is considered to be stable. Most cases are registered in Moscow followed by Saint-Petersburg and Moscow region.

All the borders remain closed. But foreign athletes who are playing in Russian clubs have received permission to return to the country. Starting from the 25th of May several training camps resumed their work.  After passing the tests, members of the national teams startеd the preparation for competitions.   

Author of this article (r) with editor of Komsomolskaya Pravda /RUS/ in 2019