In Chess in Russia Is Like Baseball in America (Big Think, 2011, 2 m), Anatoli Karpov (1951) describes the status and position of chess in Russia. “Chess became a national game,” he says. “Like you have here in America, you have baseball. And so, Russia has chess.”

Russians love Adidas. This goes back to the 1980 Olympic Games (Moscow) – the reasons behind it can be read through the links below. Watch: Why Slavs wear Adidas, and two more about the brand with the три полоски (tri paloski) – three stripes.