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Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed his country’s envoys to seek changes in international doping rules that have led to Russia’s banishment from major world sporting events since 2015.

In one of his first orders since winning a fourth term in a landslide, Putin said on March 20 that the Foreign Ministry should try to alter the key treaty underpinning anti-doping work worldwide.

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