Fight Against Doping

By May 2017 Russia will launch an advanced national program for the fight against doping. This was stated in the course of his message to the Federal Assembly, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Close legal loopholes for doping

The announced in the president of the national anti-doping program, first of all, must be provided for measures to improve the existing legislation in the fight against doping. "It's hard to say what exactly will be in this program in the future, because I am not in a workgroup. But what needs to be done is clear to me. To be a very large amount of legal work. In particular, we need to deal with the federal law "On Circulation of Medicines". According to this law, Russia banned the testing of new drugs on the Interior employees, military personnel, pregnant women, convicted and held in detention centers people. But not a word about the athletes. The law is absolutely necessary to add this remark, because the absence of this provision is a legal loophole for some distributors of doping.

As you know, recently passed a law on criminal liability for inducement to use performance-enhancing drugs. But what is the guarantee that it will work? In fact, there is a similar rule in the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation. However, in the last year, according to court statistics, the decline for the athlete to use doping for all Russia there were only two cases and only one guilty - punished. Where is the guarantee that the new law will be effective? We need enforcement mechanisms and political will that would allow law enforcement agencies to work effectively. Then the law really works. Otherwise, it may be a simple declaration.

How should operate the new anti-doping system in the Russian Federation

Now, after the abolition of the Federal Drug Control Service, created a Drug Enforcement Administration in the Interior Ministry. Consequently, there should be reporting on how much of prohibited substances identified many of these substances seized as persons prosecuted for doping offenses. So far, the sports public is in the dark about how the MIA is going to apply the criminal charges.

Doping in Russia is practically in the free market, the expert said. "Through the Internet, ordered the drug, and the courier brings you free of any doping without requiring a prescription. It has been reported in the West. I conducted a similar experiment on their own, and this was confirmed. We need to make sure that anabolic steroids could only be issued on prescription, as required by law. We have Roszdravnadzor, Rospotrebnadzor - many other regulatory authorities. Where they work? We still are dope as Meldonium and Phenotropil, recommended medicines for use in professional sports. Meanwhile, for Phenotropil biathlete Olga Pyleva at the Olympic Games in Turin (Italy) received a year probation. And it is sold freely in our pharmacies marked "Suitable for professional sports". Do not forget buy Meldonium.

These are only some problems that must be solved first. We need a new national anti-doping system. I have repeatedly stated that the issue of the fight against doping in Russia deployed by politicians in the West in order to discredit Russia. Of course, without a policy in McLaren's report has not been, but now it's not about that. The problem of doping in sport is real Russian. And we need to change the situation radically. You have to start with ourselves. We do not wait for the second report of McLaren, by the need to give a principled assessment of the negligent actions of officials of all departments and at all levels. It is necessary to solve the problem and on criminal liability of athletes for doping. Carefully examine the issue as fighting doping doctors FMBA "- sums up the expert.