MOSCOW (AP) — An eccentric Russian politician who is the president of the World Chess Federation and claims to have visited an alien spaceship is thinking about running for FIFA president.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said he was considering a bid to replace Sepp Blatter after Russian Chess Federation president Andrei Filatov encouraged him to go for the job.
Here is his story in his own words
Former Governor & Head Of Russian Chess Federation . Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
The aliens came for him on September 18, 1997. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was at home in his Moscow apartment when they came in and abducted him, taking him to their space ship where they communicated with him telepathically.
That’s
the tale Ilyumzhinov told a popular Russian television host in a program
that aired last week. But Ilyumzhinov isn’t simply one of the thousands
who claim to have been abducted by aliens, he’s also the governor of
the Russian republic of Kalmykia and the president of the World Chess
Federation. Now a Russian parliamentarian wants Ilyumzhinov questioned,
fearing he may have given the aliens “secret information,” according to
the Echo of Moscow radio station. And not just interrogated by anybody,
but by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
State
Duma deputy Andrei Lebedev made the request to the president by letter,
news website GZT.ru reports. Lebedev doesn’t believe Ilyumzhinov’s claim
that he was simply shown around the ship and released, so he has asked
the president to find out what else happened and report back to the
Duma. Lebedev is especially interested in what Ilyumzhinov may have told
the aliens about his job and whether the abduction has affected the
governor’s ability to perform the duties of office.
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