On May 6, the FIDE Ethics and Disciplinary Commission dismissed Sergey Karjakin's appeal. That appeal challenged FIDE's 6-month ban for his breach of article 2.2.10 - essentially for his very public support of P****n's invasion of Ukraine. The ban means that Karjakin won't be able to play in the 2022 Candidates, slated to start in mid-June; his slot, as most of you already know, is going to Ding Liren. Karjakin does have one last means of appeal, if he chooses to use it: the Court of Arbitration of Sport.
Karjakin has done a fine job of making himself a pariah, but he has decided to double down with a weird prank, getting a couple of his friends to call FIDE Director General Emil Sutovsky, posing as the Ukrainian Minister of Sport. Having watched the video, the only thing that they did that could have really damaged Sutovsky, had he fallen for it, was their Borat-like attempt to get him to go along with promoting a chess event not with the Ukrainian army in general, but with the Azov fighters. That group is the one segment in Ukraine that has had some connection to anti-Semitism, which is part of P***n's pitiful "justification" for the war. Sutovsky didn't bite, so as far as I can tell Karjakin achieved nothing for the home crowd while making himself look even worse to the rest of the world.
It's a pity that Karjakin holds his reprehensible views, and a shame that he either lacks anyone with sense to counsel him, or that he simply ignores those people.