According to the Russian site Znak.com, administration staff, regional administrators, lawmakers of all levels and employees of public corporations have been ordered to take their children out of foreign schools immediately.
Failure to act will see officials jeopardising their chances of promotion, local media has reported.
It is to muse about the logistics of this. They’re supposed to leave their kids behind in the Motherland while staffing their positions abroad? Rattle saber, cut off own head?
Could be saber rattling from an unofficial source to see if Kerry will bite, or worse, Putin has decided upon a course of action.