A former chess champion and deputy of the United Russia party, Anatoly Karpovis Hospitalized in a Moscow clinic. According to the press office of the party in the Duma, Karpov was “taken to one of the capital’s clinics. Domestic injury“. 71-year-old Karpov is receiving all the necessary medical treatment. We are in constant contact with the parliamentarian’s relatives,” reads a note in a statement taken by Tass.

However, just before October 31, Andriy KovalevThe President of the Movement of Russian Entrepreneurs announced in a telegram that Karpov was hospitalized in the intensive care unit. Attack by strangersKept in “a pharmacological coma”. Karpov’s assistantAlbert Stepanian, Instead he denied it This reproduction is from an interview with Tass. Along with his rival Garry Kasparov, another chess champion, Karpov was Putin’s rival.