On July 19, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to Russia Igor Petrishenko in Moscow. The parties discussed the development of mutually beneficial cooperation.

FIDE president also inspected the exhibition "Family and art -- the art of family". He was accompanied by adviser-envoy of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the Russian Federation Yuri Yaroshevich, sculptor Natalia Opiok and painter Alexei Parfyonov.