waitaminute
waitaminute, what is this administrator bloke on about?
"...in terms of distributing monies outside of Russia, that tap was proverbially turned off."
I mean...that's a very odd placement of "proverbially", there. The turning off is proverbial, fine, but the tap isn't? Is he telling us there's an actual physical Russian money tap somewhere - and one which has only *proverbially* been turned off? Inquiring minds want to know!