Influence of Anti-Doping Legislation on Labor Relations Athletes and Coaches

E.I. Filin Influence of Anti-Doping Legislation on Labor Relations Athletes and Coaches This graduate paper is aimed at examining anti-doping legislation and its interaction with labor and law, analysis of their interaction with criminal law after new amendments to the criminal code of Russia, examining of anti-doping rules in the Russian legislation. The main objectives of the paper are: (a) studying Russian and international anti-doping legislation (b) studying foreign criminal law on anti-doping (c) analysis of their interaction with labor law. Based on this research the following conclusions were made: firstly, international anti-doping rules have a number of significant shortcomings, for example, inaccuracy of legal formulations in the definition of doping; secondly, there are still many unresolved problems that contribute to the spread of doping in professional sports; thirdly, in the world there is a lot of experience in combating doping through criminal legislation (especially in France and Switzerland); fourthly, it is necessary to supplement the labor code of Russia with additional articles and provisions in order to improve the fight against doping. Academic Supervisor: Chernyaeva Daria (National Research University “The Higher School of Economics”) Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head of the Department of Labor law and social security law, Faculty of Law, National Research University “The Higher School of Economics”