US Chess Leadership Meets With Arkady Dvorkovich in Washington, D.C.

Such happy, smiling faces. Reminder: Dvorkovich has been mentioned widely in the press in relation to the Mueller investigation because he met with Carter Page during the 2016 campaign. 
From The Washington Post on 2/21, the day after the US Chess meeting with Dvorkovich in DC.

"What campaign staff members were told about George Papadopoulos’s and Carter Page’s interactions with Russia? In March 2016, as he battled for the Republican presidential nomination, Trump introduced a slate of foreign policy advisers meant to demonstrate the robustness of his campaign in that arena. Two of those advisers, Papadopoulos and Page, soon came under investigation by federal authorities for their links to Russia.

Papadopoulos was told in April 2016 — shortly after the DNC network and Podesta’s email had been accessed — that the Russians had a cache of incriminating emails for use against Clinton. The next day, he emailed a Trump campaign official to say that he had “some interesting messages coming in from Moscow about a trip when the time is right.” The comment about a “trip” probably refers to Papadopoulos’s efforts to get Trump to travel to Russia — but it’s not clear what else he might have shared about what he learned.

Page traveled to Moscow in July 2016 with the campaign’s permission. After speaking at an event, he emailed the campaign to say that he’d had a conversation with then-Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. Dvorkovich, Page wrote, had “expressed strong support for Mr. Trump and a desire to work together toward devising better solutions in response to the vast range of current international problems.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... 2b7d74dafb

Arkady is also presently on a US Treasury department list of 250 Russians  potentially subject to sanctions as Kirsan was and is. 

The IOC just rejected Dvorkovich's Paris initiative announced last week in Paris with a photo op with the lovely French IM Sophie MIllett. The speed of the IOC rejection raises the obvious question of how much of a shadow Putin's man Arkady casts over the organization and all who interact with him and FIDE.

One hopes for the best for US Chess. Still, no one should be surprised if the leadership gets up one morning with a flea infestation.