Passing by the FIDE site to look up someone's new rating or even whether they had one, I noticed this.
http://www.fide.com/component/content/a ... tions.html
in which
It would appear to be something to do with a dispute between ASEAN and the Singapore Federation and FIDE siding up to a point with Singapore.1. The temporary suspension of the ASEAN Chess Confederation as an affiliated member of FIDE.
Previously FIDE had suspended Kasparov's friend and Singapore grandee Leong, he of rules stating "you lose if you aren't sitting at the board at the start time".
The context seems more about some insult between a Singapore official and an ASEAN official, rather than being Kasparov related.