Revoking the Black Belt

So World Taekwando, the International Federation that governs the sport of Taekwando, has announced that it is revoking the honorary 9th level dan black belt that had been awarded to Vladimir Putin in 2013. I guess he had already qualified for 8th level dan black belt all on his own.
This is part of the stepping up of sanctions due to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. more and more countries and organizations are joining the sanctions.
This feels like some yeshivas that give smicha to qualifying students but include a condition that they have the right to revoke it, if need be. I have heard of such a revocation once, for a student who many years later left the frum community and did some very public things that the institution wanted to disassociate from....
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