George Duke wrote on Mon, Aug 4, 2014 04:04 PM UTC:
http://en.chessbase.com/post/opening-ceremony-in-tromso.
Background from 2 months ago regarding f.i.d.e. election August 7: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/russia-seeks-to-sway-chess-election-against-putin-enemy.
In September 2010 Ilyumzhinov was elected again that time over Karpov by 95-55: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsan_Ilyumzhinov. There are 174 countries with teams participating now.
The Wikipedia article linked above lists 'The Chess Artist', and following does include quote by Ilyumzhinov from that book: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/displaycomment.php?commentid=20571.
http://kasparov2014.com/ OR http://fidefirst.com/?p=2393 -- three days to the voting on players' day off.