Aliens have abducted the president!

Upon reading this story, I have to admit that what caught my attention first was the fact that there is a Buddhist region of Russia.  This is the republic of Kalmykia, on the northern shore of the Caspian sea, and the only nation in Europe of Mongolian origin.  The place sounds fantastically interesting - read more about it, here. 

Their president, Kirsan Ilumzhinov, is the head of the International Chess Federation.  It's nice to have a smart guy in office!  You just have to allow for certain pecadilloes, like planning to build a Chess City in Dubai, or claiming during a television interview that he has met aliens on board a spaceship. 

Sure, it sounds a little crazy.  But supposing he's right.  Do you really want to be on the wrong side of a multimillionaire businessman chessmaster president with possible Mongolian ancestry and a connection to aliens?  He's nine tenths of the way to being a bona fide supervillain.  I really don't think we want to push him over that edge.