At the FIE congress in Manama on Saturday, a Mexican fencing federation (FME) is to be expelled and replaced by another so-called Mexican federation (ADNEM). Everything has been prepared well in advance. This is no small matter – the trail leads to Uzbekistan in the Russian hemisphere.
He is the oligarch's all-purpose weapon in the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE). His CV is at least as interesting and controversial as his reputation. You must get to know Vitaly Logvin Grechuhin, shortly before FIE's election congress in his and Alisher Usmanov's hometown of Tashkent.
On this anniversary, the executives and employees of the IOC, World Aquatics, Fencing, Triathlon, Pentathlon and many other suspiciously opaque organisations – along with their servile, highly paid legal and propaganda minions, mostly from Switzerland and the UK – should take a lesson in democracy.
