Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA

RUSADA`s mission is to protect athletes` fundamental right to participate in doping- free sport. For this purpose, RUSADA, as any other anti-doping organization, uses two fundamentally different approaches. RUSADAs first objective is to inform the public and the sport community about the key provisions of the anti-doping rules, to form zero tolerance culture to doping, and also to implement and support value-based educational programs for short-, medium- and long-term perspective, effectively preventing usage of doping in sport. RUSADAs second objective is to plan and conduct testing, to investigate the facts of potential anti-doping rules violations, and also results management and conducting hearings on violations. This ensures inevitability of punishment of those athletes, coaches, doctors and other athlete support personnel, who committed anti-doping rules violations. Within the framework of the implementation of the federal law No. 426-FZ (in the version of Federal Laws o...