Russian President Vladimir Putin revoked Ruben Vardanyan, a businessman of Armenian origin, who started to live within the Russian-managed Azerbaijani territory of Karabakh, who was once stated to have participated in money laundering, illegal palms business and drug business. according to the news of AA; Explaining that he had renounced his Russian citizenship in the previous days, Vardanyan stated that he had settled in the area the place the Armenian inhabitants lived in Karabakh and used to be temporarily beneath the control of the Russian parts. Sergey Markov, a political scientist just about Putin, criticized Vardanyan on his Facebook account for revoking his Russian citizenship and wrote that he took this step to get rid of the sanctions towards Russia.