Thousands of Russian tech workers sign petition opposing invasion of Ukraine

Chess is obviously huge in Russia.

Day 1 of the invasion virtually every russian chess player said no to war. FIDE has also withdrawn everything chess from Russia. Russian Chess is on the correct side of history.

2 exceptions:

Sergey Karjakin who publicly supports the invasion. His career in chess is over. Any chess tournament who admits him will have mass amounts of strong players immediately withdraw from the tournament. He will forever be shadow banned from chess.

Anatoly Karpov who voted in favour of the invasion, he's personally sanctioned by virtually the entire world because he is in the russian duma. He is in fact more of a scumbag than Karjakin.

Something that is evidently clear, the Russian people are not behind this war. We must make efforts to applaud this of the Russian people. When this conflict ends, we must work to return Russia to the world community. To not punish the Russian people in long term. However, we can only do this when Russia is defeated. Diplomacy while Putin is in power is literally impossible.