KAZAN, February 23, Vadim Kuznetsov. Honorary President of the Russian Football Union Vyacheslav Koloskov stated that he considers it absurd and humiliating the decision to introduce a bill to the US Congress to grant permanent residence status in the country to Russian doping whistleblowers in the Russian Federation. Earlier, the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said that this bill was submitted to the US Congress by Steve Cohen of the Democratic Party. The US is a serious power in all areas, and doing this kind of thing is unworthy for them. What kind of superpower position is it to recruit informers? It's humiliating. Even discussing it in Congress. Just absurd!» — said Koloskov. Earlier, the head of USADA, Travis Tygart, said that the United States could prosecute Russians involved in the situation with a positive doping test of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, in accordance with the American «Rodchenkov law.» It was noted that the department of independent investigations of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will conduct an inspection in relation to Valieva's entourage in the case of a positive doping test.
