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Russian Curler In Anti-Doping Test
A medal-winning Russian athlete at the Winter Olympic Games has failed a drugs test
Alexander Krushelnitsky, a Russian medal-winner at the Winter Olympics has returned a positive test result for meldonium - but can it really be called a "performance enhancing drug"?
Also on the programme: the justice being meted out to those women who married Islamic State militants in Iraq; and Silvio Berlusconi is back on the campaign trail in Italy ahead of upcoming elections there.
(Picture: Alexander Krushelnitsky alongside wife Anastasia Bryzgalova. Credit: Getty)
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