“I showed my balls! I am a real man! They’re afraid of me!”

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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, eccentric Russian tycoon and embattled president of FIDE, the international chess governing body , on why he believes the election of Donald Trump, a professed admirer of Putin, will help him to have his name taken off a US Treasury sanctions list. Photo/copyright: K.Ilyumzhinov's archive