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. The first head of the Laboratory was Alexey Ivanovich Shaev. Then the long-term head of the laboratory was Vitaly Aleksandrovich Semyonov. The laboratory received accreditation from the

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and the right to analyze samples taken at the world's largest competitions, including the

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, on July 7, 1980. In 2005, Grigory Mikhailovich Rodchenkov became the acting director of the Laboratory. On July 6, 2006, Rodchenkov was appointed director of this organization. He remained in this position until November 11, 2015, when he was forced to resign due to a doping scandal. Until December 2015, the laboratory existed in the form of a federal state unitary enterprise. In December 2015, it was transformed into a federal state budgetary institution, the founder of which is the Ministry of Sports. On October 11, 2016, Russian President

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announced that

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would coordinate the laboratory's work.

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