Banned Russian Runners Struggle to Keep Their Careers Afloat
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Daria Litvinova – June 11, 2016) His first international race, the Kanazawa marathon was a special occasion for Viktor Ugarov, 30. Thousands of amateur Japanese...
View ArticleInterfax: Putin promises fight against doping at state level
ST. PETERSBURG. June 17 (Interfax) – Russia will fight against doping in sports at the state level, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. “As for the official Russian authorities, I can say with full...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH: “Olympic Ban Adds to Russia’s Culture of Grievances”– New York Times
When a global governing body for sports barred Russia’s track and field team from the 2016 Summer Olympics on Friday over a wide-ranging doping scandal, it was greeted in Russia, as is so often the...
View ArticleAll Russians Are Tainted by Putin’s Regime
(Bloomberg – bloomberg.com – Leonid Bershidsky – June 21, 2016) The International Olympic Committee’s decision to let Russian athletes compete in the Rio Olympics if they can prove that they haven’t...
View ArticleSharapova to spend disqualification period at Harvard
Maria Sharapova enrolls at Harvard Business School after being banned from tennis for two years. (Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – NIKOLAI LITOVKIN, RBTH – June 27, 2016) Russian tennis player...
View ArticleKremlin: Russia Will Not Boycott Rio Olympics
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – July 11, 2016) Russia will not boycott the upcoming Olympic Games in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, Russian media reported....
View ArticleTRANSCRIPT: [Putin] Statement in response to the report by the World...
(Kremlin.ru – July 18, 2016) President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Recent events and the tense atmosphere that has formed around international sport and the Olympic movement involuntarily recall the...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH: “Bar Russia from the Rio Olympics”– Washington Post
At the Winter Olympics in Sochi … no Russian athletes tested positive for doping, and to much celebration they took home 33 medals, more than any other nation. … behind the scenes, a system was in...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH: “Why Russia’s Olympic scandals could benefit Vladimir Putin”– Yahoo
If you think the Russian doping scandal has brought shame and humiliation to Vladimir Putin’s nation, perhaps you need to think again. Experts on Putin and Russia tell Yahoo Sports it may be the...
View ArticleA Long Jump: Russia Claims Moral Victory From Rio Olympics
(RFE/RL – rferl.org – Tom Balmforth – MOSCOW, August 22, 2016) Russia’s medal haul at the Summer Olympics in Rio was the country’s smallest since the 1912 games in Stockholm, but that did not deter...
View ArticleRBTH: Over 1,000 Russian athletes involved in doping scandal – McLaren report
In a more detailed version of the report released in July, the head of the independent WADA commission has announced that the international doping scandal implicates over 1,000 Russian athletes, and...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH: “Russia Hopes for Swift End to Track and Field Doping Exile”– AP
“… Russian track and field exists in limbo, banned since November 2015 as a series of investigations revealed widespread doping and alleged government officials helped to cover it up. … On Monday,...
View ArticleKicking habits, kicking back; In Russia, a punitive Soviet approach to drug...
(opendemocracy.net – Dmitry Lebedev – February 20, 2017) Dmitry Lebedev is a freelance journalist from Moscow. He holds a Master’s research degree in political philosophy from Radboud University,...
View ArticleInterfax: Tragic events associated with informers in Russia, this institution...
KRASNODAR. May 23 (Interfax) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for treating the idea of introducing an institution of informers into Russian sports with extreme caution, recalling that...
View ArticleNEWSWATCH: “Russian answer to opioid epidemic: ‘Cold turkey’; Russia has an...
“Russia has an opioid addiction crisis about as grave as America’s. … the two countries’ approaches to the problem could hardly be more different. … most US and European clinics offer patients...
View ArticleWhat do Regular Russians Think of the IOC’s Olympic Doping Ban?
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – December 6, 2017) “This is undoubtedly a political decision,” says Igor, 40. In Moscow, news that Russia’s entire Olympic team had been barred from next year’s...
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