Alisher Usmanov is the president of the European Fencing Federation and also a big contributer to developing fencing.  Usmanov has created an organization called “For the Future of Fencing” and their mission is promoting an educational and non-political effort to get fencing more active, publicized, and trained around the world.

The interview includes a lot of Russian-English interpreting and features For the Future of Fencing President Alexander Mihaylov and Vitaly Logvin, VP and representative of the Fund in the Americas.

Transcript will follow in approx 1 week.

Serge Timacheff is the official photographer for the International Fencing Federation (FIE) and runs the world's largest collection of fencing photographs at FencingPhotos.com.