Russia Today: IOC boss warns Russia against doping

Russia Today: IOC boss warns Russia against doping

09 February, 2010, 11:46

Russia's Winter Olympic team has been told to get tough on drugs cheats, just three days before the games begin.

The country was singled out by the International Olympic Committee president, Jacques Rogge, with half a dozen Russian athletes having failed doping tests in the last 12 months.

Among them are three biathletes and five cross country skiers, who have been banned for two years for taking the blood booster EPO.

And that poor record made Russia a talking point when the IOC executive committee met in Vancouver.

Jacques Rogge claimed he had raised the issue with Russia’s president and sports minister.

"I understand that people are worried by the numbers – it's absolutely legitimate to be worried. I can say that the IOC, I believe, has shown its preoccupation too, by speaking to the Minister of Sport, by speaking to the President of the Republic," he said.

Meanwhile, the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, who tested all the athletes ahead of their journey to Vancouver, claimed the country’s team will be “dope-free” during the Games.

09.02.2010, 01.33

UFA, February 9 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday toured the Ufa-based transformer-making plant (UTMP), this country's major transformer maker (which is part of the OAO Elektrozavod holding company), where startup-and-adjustment operations are being completed on the first production line. Putin pressed the "start" button and the first tens of metres of electrical sheet steel began to come to the conveyor line.

Elektrozavod General Director Leonid Makarevich informed the RF Head of Government of the plans of the enterprise and acquainted him with a graphical representation of the holding company. He said, in particular, that investments in the construction of the UTMP over the past four years had amounted to over 5,000 million roubles, with more than 340 million roubles out of the sum being put into the social infrastructure.

Makarevich said, "The construction of the UTMP, the major one in Russia in the past 30 years, is the result of the RF government's earnest programme that enabled power engineers to work in this way (so efficiently)."

Putin expressed an opinion that "It is essential to assign the Ministry of Energy to work with you more closely". The Prime Minister referred to the plans of the enterprise to supply electrical equipment to all regions of the Russian Federation and to more than 60 countries as "absolutely right ones".

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Putin's scored a rating of 78% for his performance as prime minister and 48% trusted him.

The government's anti-crisis measures have an approval rating of 54%, which is on a par with approval rating for the government as an entity and hasn't changed much in the last year.

The ten most-trusted Russian politicians include Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu 13%), Liberal Democratic leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky 9%), and Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov 8%) reports Interfax.

RIA: Russian parliament conflict over: speaker signs agreement with Putin backers

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20100209/157818196.html
08:2509/02/2010

The conflict between Russia's ruling pro-Kremlin party United Russia and upper house speaker Sergei Mironov over the latter's disagreement with the prime minister ended peacefully when the sides signed an agreement.

Mironov, Federation Council speaker and leader of the A Just Russia party, fueled the wrath of the United Russia party on February 2 when he said in a television interview he did not fully share Vladimir Putin's policy, in particular his budget plan.

Senior members of United Russia, which holds the parliamentary majority and is led by Putin, reacted by saying they could demand Mironov's resignation, but later toned down their harsh criticism.

Mironov stressed that his party was and will be in opposition to United Russia and that this was quite normal.

The agreement signed on Monday between A Just Russia and United Russia says that A Just Russia supports the policy of President Dmitry Medvedev and Putin on strategic issues of foreign policy, national security and countering extremism.

Vyacheslav Volodin, a leading member of the United Russia party, said that should Mironov violate the agreement, the issue of his resignation would be raised again.

Deputy general director of the Political Technology Center, Dmitry Orlov, said that Mironov, when he signed the coalition agreement with United Russia, in fact gave up his opposition to United Russia and suffered an "image and political defeat."

Russia was badly hit by the global economic crisis, with the Russian government devaluing the ruble and cutting spending. The government has also introduced a set of unpopular measures in 2010, including higher utility services bills, increased prices for food and medicines, and higher public transport fares.

However, despite heavy criticism from opposition parties, the popularity of Putin and President Medvedev was not damaged by the crisis and they remain unchallenged leaders in opinion polls.

MOSCOW, February 9 (RIA Novosti)

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