Talk:Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

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[edit] Copy vio

Note: Copyrighted material from "The Sunday Times" article "A corrupt man in power (again)" 9 August 1998 placed here by User:219.111.198.133 has been removed. Seabhcán 13:38, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Source of wealth?

Other pages note that Kirsan is a millionaire. Anyone know the source of his wealth? --IanOsgood 15:58, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Check out the "Planet Kirsan" article from the New Yorker. It says, " Ilyumzhinov profited greatly from the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Like many other ambitious biznesmeny who found themselves in Moscow in the early, lawless days of post-Soviet capitalism, he walked away with millions—nobody really knows how much—by, among other things, trading automobiles, and he has said that he owns a stake in fifty companies, including some banks."--Epeefleche 23:35, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Building a Catholic Church

"He has spent millions of dollars on chess and religion, building a Catholic church at the instigation of the Pope John Paul II."

What utter nonsense. An old house in a slum neighborhood was converted into a Catholic Church.

"He has also built a mosque, a synagogue, 22 Orthodox churches, and 30 Buddhist temples. Chess was made a compulsory subject in schools; the region now has numerous champions."

Does anyone have a link? --Northside 732 18:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Just try googling it -- have you done that to no avail? Many references, at least one from an interview. Or check the external links in the article. One starting point, for example, is [1]. --Epeefleche 23:36, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't need to google. Most of those articles, which have a sensationalist slant, were written by journalists who've never been to the Republic of Kalmykia. I've visited the region on several occassions. I've seen firsthand the Catholic church as well as some of the other churches built with government funds. Many of those church buildings cost less to build than, for example, a single-family house in the northeast corridor of the United States.--Northside 732 16:00, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

I hear you. But Wiki policy asks us to focus on what we can support with citations to sources such as these. Rather than personal research or knowledge. If you can find appropriate sources that state what you know to be the case, please feel free to add them to the article as well.--Epeefleche 16:07, 15 June 2007 (UTC)