Fide Sanctions

[Chris Goodall]

There's the Korchnoi precedent from 1977 of regarding the right to play in the Candidates as personal and not connected to a national Federation.

There are more recent precedents though, for a world champion to say "I care not for your Candidates process; include me out".

[Mick Norris]

If FIDE bows to the IOC and kicks both Nepo and Karjakin out of the Candidates

That's not what the IOC actually says about individuals as opposed to teams though e.g. Winter Paralympics 2022: Russia and Belarus athletes classed as neutral after Ukraine invasion

It does appear that Chelski are up for sale

Ukraine crisis: Which sports have banned Russians?

[Jonathan Bryant]

Since posting I've seen there's a more directly relevant discussion on the Olympiad thread in international chess so I'm going to move my post there.

[NickFaulks]

FIDE's frankly rather limp reaction is also in stark contrast to Grischuk's interview

But you would have preferred to have him banned from the tournament, so the interview would not have happened.