"I see no reasons for reviewing the decision of the IOC to hold the 2014 Olympics in Sochi," Vladimir Putin said in a televised question-and-answer session.
The Russian Black Sea resort at the foot of the Caucasus mountains won its bid in July 2007, defeating Salzburg, Austria, and Pyeonchang, South Korea. Last month, the Georgian National Olympic Committee sent a letter to the IOC asking for the games to be moved from Sochi for security reasons.
Putin said that decisions on where to hold the Olympic Games are made not by politicians, but by the IOC, and that he hoped that the committee's work will not be politicized.
"Despite the attempts of some Western politicians to defend their clients in the Georgian leadership, which launched a violent act of aggression against South Ossetia, we will increasingly see people reach the view that the culprits of this aggression and bloodshed in the Caucasus are the current Georgian leadership," he said.
Russia and Georgia fought a brief war in August after Tbilisi launched an offensive in an attempt to regain control of breakaway South Ossetia. Moscow subsequently recognized the republic along with Abkhazia, another separatist Georgian region, as independent states.
Georgia last officially raised the Sochi issue at the general assembly of the European Olympic committees in Istanbul, Turkey in November.
