Where are the chess?

[Vladimir]

At last the authorities in the country was, if not the cult of chess, a considerable cultural field for the development of interest in the sport. Television programs have been - on a magnetic board dealt the party, were illuminated tournaments. About mass, about the chess section of schools already and do not say. And somehow it all disappeared overnight. On TV - down from the heart - out? How explain the phenomenon. And as in your case the regions with chess?