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Russia plays by its own rules as Europe discovered when the Kremlin sent troops to seize Crimea two years ago.

The Olympic movement has been reeling for months from revelations of what looks like a broad, systematic government-backed doping scheme involving many of Russia’s best athletes.

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Russia’s disregard for international norms has been brought into sharp focus again by riots this week at the Euro 2016 football championships in France with Russia’s most notorious soccer fan, Alexander Shprygin, and 20 of his compatriots to be expelled.

The deportations were announced on the same day that France sentenced three Russian fans to between one year and two years in prison for violence. Russian officials have protested at the French actions and the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the French ambassador in Moscow on Wednesday to warn about the damage in French-Russian relations.

Shprygin, who can be seen with President Vladimir Putin in photographs that have received wide play in European media this week, is an official member of the Russian delegation at Euro 2016. He was detained by police a few days after Russian fans fired a flare at English soccer fans in Marseilles and then, when the game ended, viciously attacked English fans inside and outside the stadium.