title: WASHINGTON STRIKES WITH SOFT POWER
abstract: (By Yury Tavrovsky. Nezavisimaya gazeta, Aug. 8, 2016, p.
   3. Complete text:) This summer, Russia and China suffered powerful
   American blows almost simultaneously. A chain reaction
   of [athletic] doping investigations and scandals led to the
   discrediting of Russian sports on the world stage and nearly
   resulted in the suspension of our national team from the [2016
   Summer] Olympic Games [see Current Digest, Vol. 68, No. 29, pp. 18
   - 19 and No. 30, p.
   19]. A decision of the [Permanent] Court 
journal: Current Digest of the Russian Press The