What has been in the air for last half year has happened. Sergey Karjakin became Russian citizen and will from now on represent Russia.
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.co...russian-citizen.html
He received the Russian papers on July 25th, signed personally by Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia.



FIDE's site where they list the transfers between the federations is still silent about this.
http://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2009