SIMFEROPOL, April 6 Chess player Sergei Karyakin in response to an attack on him ex-U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul called him «a marshal of the army of the American-Ukrainian fake-Nazis.» Karjakin, in his Telegram channel, quoted McFaul's post on Twitter, where he expressed the hope that «no other international chess player will ever honor Sergey Karjakin with a match» .In response to McFaul's post, Karjakin asked the ex-ambassador why the US representative to the UN did not support Russia's initiative to hold a meeting of the Security Council on a provocation in Bucha near Kiev. «You are scared?» — the grandmaster asked. — Karjakin wrote on Telegram, posting screenshots of records from Twitter. On March 21, the Commission on Ethics of the International Chess Federation (FIDE) disqualified Karjakin for six months for supporting the Russian special operation in Ukraine. Due to disqualification, the Russian will lose the opportunity to speak at the Candidates Tournament, which will be held from June 16 to July 7.
