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MOSCOW - Enraged by its blanket ban from the Paralympic Games and the exclusion of scores of its athletes from the Olympic Games, Moscow is ramping up a campaign against a Russian doctor who provided detailed evidence of state-sponsored doping.

Entrusted earlier this summer with hearing a criminal case filed against the doctor, a Moscow court has ordered the seizure of property belonging to the whistle-blower, Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov, the former director of Russia’s antidoping laboratory.

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