Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is the former "president" of Kalmykia, a territory northwest of the Caspian Sea. Kalmykia is a "republic" within the Russian Federation. It´s the only area geographically located in Europe where a majority of the population (the Mongolian Kalmyks) practice Buddhism, specifically the Geluk sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Ilyumzhinov is also the former president of the World Chess Federation and a succesful businessman (or "oligarch").
Oh, and he claims to have met space aliens...
In 1997, Ilyumzhinov was taken on board a UFO while staying in Moscow. I assume he is the highest-ranking politician (or perhaps only politician?) claiming to have met beings from another planet. Despite this, the interview linked above is surprisingly bland and uninteresting. Ilyumzhinov sometimes sounds like a classical contactee: the aliens stand for peace, love and understanding blah-blah. We aren´t yet ready for contact. You know the drift. He also references all the usual alternative ideas and tropes: Atlantis, Egyptian pyramids, quantum physics, Baba Vanga, "NASA knows the truth", and so on. The former Kalmyk leader strongly suggests that both the United States and the Soviet Union stopped going to the Moon fearing the aliens.
However, Ilyumzhinov says very little concrete about his own conversation with the aliens. They evidently had a very large spaceship with hundreds of astronauts, all dressed in such a way that Ilyumzhinov didn´t see their faces. He saw a fiery planet (or sun?) from the UFO window. An energy source? At one point, he says that the aliens invented chess?!
Fun fact: the main interview is taped in Tirana, Albania. The former Kalmykian president sits in front of two large Albanian flags, while the American UFO enthusiast who interviews him sits in front of two equally large Bektashi flags?! (The Bektashi are a somewhat peculiar Muslim group in Albania.)
The above is based on the first hour of the interview. The whole thing is two hours. So maybe I missed the disclosure in the second half, LOL. But I doubt it.
"Lenin was Kalmyk". OK, that was a new one. I mean, I assumed Lenin was Bashkir. Or Swedish! :P
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