21 years old GM Alexander Motylev from Ekaterinburg is the Russia Champion - 2001 . The 54th Russian Chess Championships took place April 29th-May 9th 2001 in Elista. There were 17 (first was declared 16) qualifying places for the European Championships from 60 paricipants. Players included: Sergei Shipov 2640, Andrei Kharlov 2639, Valerij Filippov 2632, Alexander Lastin 2627, Alexander Rustemov 2625, Vladimir Malakhov 2623, Konstantin Landa 2610, Alexander Motylev 2601, Evgeniy Najer 2600, Andrey Shariyazdanov 2594, Mihail Kobalija 2590, Sergey Dolmatov 2587, Alexander Galkin 2584, Evgeny Pigusov 2584, Yuri S Balashov 2581, Vladimir Epishin 2579, Ildar Ibragimov 2578, Konstantin N Aseev 2577, Yuri Yakovich 2577, Evgeny Sveshnikov 2571, Semen I. Dvoirys 2568, Nikolai Pushkov, 2561, Sergey Volkov 2558, Maxim Turov 2553 etc

Final standings:
1-2 . Motylev, Lastin - 6.5
3 . Kharlov - 6.0
4-20 . Chernyshov, Malakhov, Pigusov, Turov, Smirnov, Epishin, Arbakov, Naijer, Ionov, Galkin, Bezgodov, Kobalija, Burmakin, Volzhin, Vaulin, Aseev, Volkov - 5.5
21-26 . Shipov, Balashov, Dvoirys, Iljushin, Jakovenko, Makarov - 5.0
27-37 Rustemov, Sharijazdanov, Dolmatov, Ibragimov, Yakovich, Pushkov, Potkin, Inarkiev, Beshukov, Baikov, Chebotarev - 4.5
38-47 Filippov, Khasin, Timofeev, Lugovoi, Loginov, Belozerov, Potapov, Zakharevich, Tomashevsky, Pridorozhni - 4.0
48-54 Sveshnikov, Zahartsov, Frolov, Bachin, Karpatchev, Shovunov, Korobov - 3.5
55-56 Riazantsev, Utnasunov - 3.0
57 Feoktistov - 2.5
58 Diu - 2.0
59-60 Mantsinov, Poddubnyi - 1.5
Results
The places were determined on Buchholz coefficient. Missed qualification on this index GMs Aseev, Vaulin and Volkov.
Unfortunately there were not published the correct games on the official site: http://54rcc.fide.com :
Games in PGN
Games with java-viewer
At the same time we would like to express an astonishment on the occasion of the World Community's silent about the quality of the FIDE tournaments games transmission in the Internet, which monopolistic rights for some reason (perhaps because of the same quality) has seized the FIDE-Commerc Company.