RCF Supervisory Board Meets in Moscow

Agenda for XIII Congress is determined.

On Saturday, December 16, the Supervisory Board of the Russian Chess Federation held a meeting in the Business Centre of the Radisson Slavyanskaya hotel in Moscow. The RCF President Andrey Filatov addressed to the guests with a welcome speech. The RCF Executive Director Mark Glukhovsky made a progress report on the Federation’s activity in 2017. 

By an absentee voting on December 2, 2017, the Supervisory Board decided that the next 13th Congress would be held in Moscow on February 3, 2018. The delegates will hear the reports by the RCF President Andrey Filatov, the RCF Executive Director and the Chairman of the Internal Auditors Board; a new redaction of the RCF Statute will be approved. The Congress is to elect RCF President for 4 years, Vice Presidents, Honorary Presidents, members of the Supervisory Board and the Internal Auditors Board. Priority directions of the Federation’s activity up 2022 will be determined. Some members of the Supervisory Board proposed to include the issue of a candidate for the FIDE presidency, whom the RCF would support in 2018 elections, into the agenda of the Congress.

The Supervisory Board determined the following norms of representation at the Congress:

The following persons will take part in the work of the Congress:

- 1 delegate from each accredited regional sports chess federation of the Russian regions;

- 6 delegates (natural persons) - members of the Supervisory Board, who are not representing accredited regional sports chess federations of the Russian regions.

A delegate is not entitled to pass his/her vote to another person. 

The Supervisory Board determined a schedule for the RCF’s events in 2018. 

The budget of RCF for 2018 was also approved. The RCF entry and annual fees will not change in 2018 - 0 roubles.

Mark Glukhovsky told about charitable and social programmes of the RCF and appealed to the Board members to support the Chess to Orphanages programme, in particular, more actively in their regions. 

Alexander Kostiev gave a report about the RCF’s project Chess in School and the plans for 2018. 

Photos by Vladimir Barsky