Association Russian Anti-Doping Agency RUSADA #cleansport 18+ 1 Contents 1. RUSADA: Mission 5 2. Message from the Director General of RUSADA Yuriy A. Ganus 6 3. Management bodies 12 4. Our team 14 5. RUSADA organizational structure 20 6. Supervisory Board 22 7. Committees 26 8. Strategic conceptual directions of RUSADA development 28 9. Main goals for RUSADA in 2019 29 10. RUSADA compliance with The World Anti-Doping Code and harmonization of national sports federations of the Russian Federation 30 11. RUSADA strategic goals 38 12. International cooperation 40 13. RUSADA areas of operations 48 14. Testing 50 15. Investigations 60 16. Results management 62 17. Therapeutic use exemptions 73 18. Education 79 19. Science 90 20. Financial indicators 94 21. Contacts 96 APPENDICES 98 1. RUSADA: mission ssociation Russian Anti-Doping Agency RUSADA is a national anti-doping organization of the Russian Federation, acting according to The International Convention against Doping Ain Sport, adopted by the General Conference of The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization on October 19, 2005 and ratified by the Russian Federation on December 26, 2006, The Council of Europe Anti-Doping Convention, The World Anti-Doping Code and The All-Russian Anti-Doping Rules. Independent National Anti-Doping Organization RUSADA was established in January 2008 by the initiative of Federal Agency on Physical Culture and Sport in compliance with The Code of The World Anti-Doping Agency (hereinafter — WADA) and The International Convention Against Doping in Sport. RUSADA was granted the independent agency status in 2017. RUSADA main mission is to protect athletes’ fundamental right to compete in doping-free sport. RUSADA is actively participating in developing normative documents regulating the activities on fighting against doping in sport in the territory of the Russian Federation. RUSADA uses three fundamentally different approaches for achieving this goal. First approach is independent case manage- Third approach is, on one hand, providing ment in strict compliance with the standards comprehensive anti-doping support to clean and anti-doping norms, based on the inter- sport and, on the other hand — ensuring and national anti-doping principles and values. guaranteeing the inevitability of punishment of those athletes, coaches, doctors, and other Second approach is preventing use of doping athlete staff who commit anti-doping rules in sport. RUSADA’s objective is to inform the violations. This work includes planning and public and sports community about the key conducting testing, investigating potential provisions of the anti-doping rules, to form anti-doping rules violations, results manage- the culture of zero tolerance to doping, and ment and conducting hearings on violations, to implement and maintain value-based short- ensuring athletes’ right for fair trial of the term, medium-term and long-term educational revealed cases of anti-doping rules violations. programs. 4 5 2. Message from the Director General someone’s will our great sports power is be- ti-doping is an indispensable part of high-per- coming a doping outcast, a repeated offender formance sports. National Anti-Doping Agency of RUSADA Yuriy A. Ganus of the sports world? The trails of endless dop- is a clean sport gatekeeper! RUSADA independ- ing scandals occurring for the fifth year in a ence misunderstanding, misunderstanding of row (and, apparently, they will continue for 4 agency independent operational approaches ear friends! more years), relegates to the background the for successful sport federation or even the en- What do we live for? Is it for illusions? great sports history and the bright victories tire sport jurisdiction crisis overcome leads to D of the current generation of athletes. a collapse of the sport as such. Independent What for do we aim high? Is it for a de- RUSADA still serves as a bridge for restoring ceptive dream? Why are we stunned with the fact that the trust to our sports. Have we already forgotten sports community is more and more often how comfortable, loyal RUSADA which was ac- Who do we look up to? False idols? turning its back on us after new stage of the tually servicing our sports ended up and fell in doping crisis? 2015? That crisis in our sports is on yet, and Who are we proud of? Winners who are not is even gaining momentum. However, cur- real winners? The world around us reflects our inner world. rent RUSADA is different in terms of quality. And when we insist that the whole world is As the result of 2019 RUSADA is the only or- Do we want to be proud of victories gained against us, it can indicate that we are not in ganization among those within the sports ju- in a deceptive way or, even worse, in a crim- harmony with ourselves. It means that we do risdiction which global anti-doping regulator inal way? something which is not spiritually ours. And WADA and leading international professional this is not surprising. As normal people, we community iNADO have no claims to. What are Do we want surrogate victories, should stick to the truth, without gambling the problems then? Both the national sport while we refuse from surrogate in complicated political psychological quests, system and RUSADA started overcoming the drinks and food in our every- which are more often not that easy to get out crisis at about the same time, but had entirely day lives? of. When adding new perspectives of our own different outcomes. Such striking differenc- worldview we obviously risk to lose opportu- es are caused by different approaches. The Do you want your kids to com- nity for a normal and an honorable way out two gravest crises developing in our sport in pete with cyborgs? of the situation because the sense of reality parallel are based on the same causes which is either lost or critically altered by numerous aggravate the situation and are flawed old- Do you want your children to measurements of the subjective perception school approaches for the crisis overcome, for have a bright but short life? of the world. When the critical gap in the re- running activities. lations with the surrounding world is being Do you want your children realised, there is a risk of making unaccept- The root of our problems lies not in the west- to be fed with doping and able decisions, extending the limits of normal, ern countries unlike it has been portrayed. their hopes for the future thus aggravating the situation to the edge. The problems are internal. The greatest fear to be destroyed? is fear of change, fear to break the old disas- The key problems of our sport are within our trous patterns and methods. The tasks related If you say “no” to these sports jurisdiction. The habit to divert the fo- to sports, set by the Russian President, are not questions, then why such cus from the real issues far aside, in the hope accomplished and can not be accomplished a state of affairs in our to “protect”, conceal something imperfect, but because of the corrupt and inefficient old ap- sports is fine by you, both which belongs to us, has been a deep-root- proaches and methods. Lack of the anti-dop- in professional and in ama- ed way of solving problems since the dawn of ing role and value understanding in sport is teur sport? time. This habit easily transforms minor prob- a bottleneck for clean sport! In a considera- lems into challenges of catastrophic extent ble part of our sports, the need for changes Is our healthy lifestyle limited to a (such as the crisis in the All-Russian Athletics in the attitude to doping and the plausibili- discarded cigarette? Federation). These are outdated approaches ty of such changes are either not understood to sports management, projected to the an- or underestimated, or deliberately ignored. Why are we satisfied with the fact that be- ti-doping activities. It is lack of anti-doping Often changes are superficial, and therefore cause of someone’s mistakes and/or through understanding. Everyone must accept that an- not effective. 6 7 Look at yourself in the mirror of human values. The biblical battle in sports continues Decide which side you are on It’s time to step out of the mirror land doping crisis 8 9 The level of anti-doping support in most them. To realize this, one needs to compare What is the use of the most up-to-date, inno- standing of independent Russian Anti-Doping sports is extremely low, which has the fol- RUSADA of 2015 and today, these are two vative sport organization if it does not grant Agency RUSADA. lowing causes: fundamentally different agencies, of the athletes the right to participate in high-per- same name and registered address, but of formance sports, international level sports, to We strictly stand by the principles of clean XXlow level of anti-doping culture; different destinies and capabilities, in- have full-fledged life in sports. sport protection. We accept no compromises. cluding clean sport interests protection in We need to make quality changes in our po- XXlack or insufficiency of objective independ- such a great sports power as Russia. New When I took office as RUSADA head, I believed sition and change the attitude to doping in ent position and willpower to fight against independent Anti-Doping Agency RUSADA that new RUSADA key objectives must be RU- our sports, in our country to commence fun- doping at the various levels of the country undertakes uncompromising fight against SADA functionality reinstatement according damental changes. In doing so, it is necessary governance; doping in all its forms, extends the horizons to the international standards and principles, to maintain the consistency of system nature for revival, development and protection of even more so in the period before the Olym- and commitment to this direction.