- Petr Igorevich, can you tell us, what should we do to reform WADA?
 
- First of all, it is necessary to strengthen the Olympic Charter and publish the rules (code) of behavior for members of the Olympic and Paralympic families. Violation of these principles will make it possible to expel those who violate such rules from the Olympic family, regardless of status and position. This will keep the charter intact and will help to remove from the Olympic movement any form of propaganda of discrimination, external pressure, blackmail, bribery, and things like that. Then such persons as the once respected former president of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Craven or the president of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) Sebastian Coe, subjected to pressure or blackmail from outside, could not even think of proposing to eliminate clean athletes for political reasons.

It is also necessary to disband WADA and create a new anti-doping system in strict accordance with the principles of Olympism with new founders such as the IOC and the IPC. This will help to remove specific individuals from the founders of the agency, which are a possible tool for using it for personal and political purposes.

- Are you saying that WADA's funding principles should be changed?

- A nice question: a good shot, as they say. First of all, it is necessary to eliminate the policy of inequality promoted by WADA and giving an advantage to individual countries (primarily the US, Canada and the UK) for veiled political blackmail. Let me explain. If, at the beginning, WADA was financed only by the International Olympic Committee, what was ideologically reasonable, now the states contribute half of the money. The distribution of funding is disproportionate. Europe pays the most — 47.5%, then America — 29%, followed by Asia (20.46%), Oceania (2.54%) and Africa (0.5%). But the United States is the guarantor of WADA's economic well-being. So, as you know, who has the gold makes the rules. The financial principle dominates honor, morality and permeates all the activities of the agency. For example, the commissions and subcommittees of WADA are predominantly represented by Anglo-Saxons. That is, the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Australia ... In numbers, it looks like this: the USA — 17 people, Canada — 12, Italy and France — 11 each, Switzerland — 8, England and Germany — 7 each, Australia — 6. From China, only two people work for WADA, although, the country is one of the leaders in world sports. Russia is not represented there at all today. Who benefits? The United States of America and Western Europe control the entire system of anti-doping in sports.

Therefore, the basic principle of the WADA reform should be proportional funding of the agency’s work only through the IOC without the possibility of direct participation of states and without the humiliating continental principle that shows the financial and other kind of dominance of some countries over others. In addition, membership in WADA should be based on the principles of proportional participation of countries. The head of the agency must be elected for a fixed term (for example, the Olympic cycle) and represent a country that is not among the states that are sports leaders. WADA committees and subcommittees should be established on the same principles of proportional and equal representation of countries. The term of working of the head of the subcommittee is limited to a certain period.