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Following the
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In the most recent years, she is Chair of the FIDE Commission for Women's Chess and has initiated many important FIDE Social
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Belarusian Chess Federation. In this short time, much has been done to develop and popularize chess giving a new life to the national chess championships and attracting major international events such as the European Individual Chess Championship and the first ever
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media, a criminal prosecution on false accusations and fabricated evidence was initiated against
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for a year but later returned to
Belarus. She then opened her own chess coaching business "Chess Academy" for several years. Her uncle was a famous GM
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