Very interesting. As the story is written, sounds like Putin was making sure his little Georgian break-away states don’t embarrass him by looting the coffers to boot.
"According to Tkhagapsoev, the approaching Olympics in Sochi and the international Circassian activist movement, which is demanding recognition of the Circassian genocide of the 19th century, prompted Moscow’s backlash against the Kabardino-Balkarian authorities, because the Russian government thought the republican leader needed to be “disciplined” "
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