It also said that all samples at the center would be moved to another WADA-accredited laboratory.
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She also said that banning the entire Russian track and field team was “absolutely unacceptable” and marked “an attempt to introduce the principle of collective punishment into the area of sport”.
Putin has ordered an investigation into the allegations of widespread doping but the messages from within Russian Federation are still mixed over whether they accept any liability for a level of corruption which commission chairman Dick Pound likened to that of the Cold War era when state-run doping was prevalent in Eastern Europe.
“According to a Sputnik News translation, Putin said: “[Russia] must do everything possible to protect [its] athletes from banned substances…as the competition should be fair and promote sportsmanship”.
“It is essential that we conduct our own internal investigation and – I want to underline – provide the most open professional co-operation with worldwide anti-doping structures”, Putin said.
WADA has recommended that Russian track athletes be allowed to compete if their federation enacts immediate reforms.
“We have also made it clear that if officials or coaches have been involved that they will be banned from future games”.
There have been calls for Russia to be banned from next year’s Rio Olympics after the WADA report claimed the 2012 London Games were “more or less sabotaged” by cheating Russian athletes.
The Dutch official said: “These have been shocking findings so the message must be strong: that we can not tolerate this, whether it’s Russia or any federation”.
Lord Coe will appear before MPs on December 2 to answer questions on the handling of athletics’ doping scandal and his links with sportswear firm Nike.
“It happens all around the world”.
In an interview with BBC Radio 5 live’s Sportsweek on Sunday, he said: “The day after I got elected, I started a massive review”. Other countries do it as well.
Former European 400-meter relay champion Ksenia Aksyonova says “everywhere there are problems”. “We have seen this – in 1984 we boycotted the Olympics in Los Angeles because of politics, in 1980 western countries boycotted Moscow. Nothing good came out of this”.
“If someone breaks the rules on doping, the responsibility should be individual”, he said.
“We think that all the goals have been achieved regarding this”.
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Later today new president Coe will be part of an IAAF council meeting which will determine the fate of Russian Federation following this week’s revelations from the World Anti-Doping Agency.
