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minus-squarefmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·5 months ago Oliver Carroll, a Ukraine war correspondent for The Economist, summed up the situation with some social media snark: “I know that on the standards of Russian doping it’s perhaps only a 7 out of 10. But still…”