Bolat Asanov

Bolat Kärışalūly Asanov is a Kazakh chess grandmaster and writer. A son of Karishal Asanov, Soviet-Kazakhstani dissident, Kazakhstan's independence fighter, he is author of a book "The Championship Diary", published in Tallinn, Estonia in 2023. Asanov was a member of the FIDE Central Committee, FIDE representative to the International Olympic Committee .
Asanov, being a candidate of historical sciences, on July 15, 2005, achieved that the Institute of Military History of the Ministry of Defence of Russia officially confirmed the fact of hoisting the red flag on the Reichstag Building in Berlin on April 30, 1945 by Lieutenant Rakhimzhan Koshkarbayev and Private Grigory Bulatov. For this purpose, on 7 May 2005, Bolat Asanov addressed a letter to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.