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"I can understand that woman, she is being kept in the harshest conditions, for many many months now she has been subjected to a kind of torture: they would make her go for walks at night, forcibly interrupting her sleep, place her in single confinement, and many other things.
I have reasons to believe the conditions that have been created for her are intended to break her will and make her confess to something she likely didn't do. She is being kept in conditions "normally reserved for dangerous repeat offenders. "
"During the night there was somewhat wild information from Austria detailing that representatives of the Austrian police visited the Russian training camp to hand over notifications regarding doping accusations against some of our leading athletes," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.
"I really don't understand what's going on in Europe and what traditions have started to emerge there to make a night raid on the Russian camp on the eve of important sports competitions. They created a strange, destabilizing and depressing situation of threats while trying to explain something and hand over some notifications," she added.
It remains unclear what kind of charges have been brought against the Russians, but Alexander Loginov, who is on the controversial list of suspects, clarified that the Austrian authorities have been investigating alleged "manipulations with blood transfusion."
Since the 2017 World Championship in Hochfilzen Russian biathletes have undergone multiple doping checks with no positive tests emerging.
Comment: Even after changing the rules in the accounting, for reasons of 'national security' (of course), the Pentagon still failed its audit. That, and the epic failure in many of their projects, tells you all you need to know about the overwhelming and systemic corruption within the department.