Question: Were Mikhail Ulibin and Willie Rutherford of the same nationality?

Shukhrat Safin( 3 April 1970 – 20 September 2009) was an Uzbekistani chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Safin shared first place with Mikhail Gurevich and Victor Mikhalevski in the Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament in Vlissingen. He finished third on tiebreak score. In 2001, Safin won the Uzbekistani Chess Championship. In late November of the same year, he took part in the FIDE World Championship. Here he was knocked out in the first round by Predrag Nikolić. In 2002 Safin tied for 1st – 3rd with Mikhail Ulibin and Evgeny Gleizerov at the Masters tournament of the 12th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival. In 2008 he came third in the Kolkata Open. In 2009, he tied for 5th- 10th with Chakkravarthy Deepan, Georgy Timoshenko, Sundar Shyam, Saidali Iuldachev and Andrei Deviatkin in the Mumbai Mayor Cup. Safin played for Uzbekistan's national team in the Chess Olympiads of 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2008, in the World Team Chess Championship 2001 and in the Asian Team Chess Championships of 1995 and 2003. In the 1995 event he won two medals: team bronze and individual silver on board four. He died of blood cancer in his native city of Samarkand. <SEP> Andrey Shariyazdanov( born July 12, 1976) is a Russian chess Grandmaster and European Junior Champion in 1996. He played for Russia B team at the 33rd Chess Olympiad in Elista In 1998 he took first place in the 5th World University Chess Championship in Rotterdam, helping Russia to win the team gold. In 2003 he tied for 3rd – 10th with Vladimir Belov, Alexei Kornev, Farrukh Amonatov, Alexey Kim, Alexander Areshchenko, Mikhail Ulibin and Spartak Vysochin in the St. Petersburg 300 Open tournament. In 2004 he tied for 1st – 5th with Christian Bauer, Boris Avrukh, Alexander Rustemov and Pavel Eljanov in the Masters Section of the Biel Chess Festival. <SEP> William MacDonald Rutherford( 19 January 1945 – 24 October 2010) was an Australian football( soccer) player. <SEP> Mikhail Ulibin( born 31 May 1971) is a Russian chess grandmaster( 1991) and silver medalist in the World Junior Chess Championship of 1991. He played for the bronze medal- winning second Russian team in the 1994 Chess Olympiad. Ulibin played in the Soviet Union Junior Chess Championships of 1984, 1985( 3rd place), 1986, 1987, and 1988( tied for 1st – 2nd with Gata Kamsky). In 1994, he finished second behind Peter Svidler in the Russian championship at Elista. In 2002, he won the Masters tournament of the 12th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival edging out on tiebreak Evgeny Gleizerov and Shukhrat Safin, after all finished on 6½/ 9 points. In 2003, he tied for 3rd – 10th with Vladimir Belov, Alexei Kornev, Farrukh Amonatov, Alexey Kim, Alexander Areshchenko, Andrey Shariyazdanov, and Spartak Vysochin in the St. Petersburg 300 Open tournament. Ulibin came first in the Masters Open Tournament in Biel 2007 and in the Zagreb Open in 2010. In 2011, he won the Central Serbia Championship in Paraćin; tied for 2nd–6th with Konstantine Shanava, Maxim Turov, Robert Hovhannisyan, and Levon Babujian in the 4th Karen Asrian Memorial in Jermuk; and came first at Winterthur.