The Russian grand master Sergei Aleksandrovich Karyakin received the state award

The minister of sports Russian Federation Oleg Matytsin handed over to the Russian grand master Sergei Aleksandrovich Karyakin a medal of the award "For Merits before the Fatherland" of the II degree. About it reports information agency "ITAR-TASS". The same awards swimmers Mikhail Dovgalyuk and Krasnykh Alexander received, the handballer Ilyina Catherina, Fomina Olga, Mikhaylichenko Helena and  Anna Sedoykina, the diver Victor Minibaev and other athletes. The Russian grand master Sergei Aleksandrovich Karyakin on March 21 according to the decision of the commission on ethics and discipline of the International federation of chess (World Chess Federation) was detached for half a year because of the open letter addressed to Vladimir Putin. Later...