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The american team here. some of this advice comes -- seems to collide with what's being said by pentagon officials. warning perhaps not only about the potential for threats within the olympic arena here within the kind of ring of steel from 37,000 russian security officers. the more concern is softer targets to wander into sochi nearby or to head out. that's potentially where security may lapse, where things may get necessarily less safe. and we have been talking for a few days now about how this whole region has been for the past decade extraordinarily volatile. so unlikely that during the we...

Eurasia.org, as you've been looking at this over the last 24 hours or so, justin, what your sense of what ties there may be, if any at all, to the conflict in that area? >> my gut says there's not too great a connection. i think more important to look at is their exile experience. essentially their chechens, but they have a very tenuous connection to chechnya. they spent a lot of time in kyrgyzstan, that is going through a marked democracy, and there's a chechen diaspora community in chechnya that they were part of that is being left behind because there's a very fierce fight over resources in...