Russia has claimed its athletes who hope to compete in Rio 2016 will "go over and above" demands to prove they are clean of drugs after the bar was raised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The Russian Ministry of Sport gave a diplomatic response to the IOC's announcement on Tuesday that prospective Olympians from the country, in all sports, would have to pass individual anti-doping assessments before being declared eligible.
Kenya's Olympians will be subject to the same criteria, the IOC said. The unprecedented measure affecting both countries was unanimously agreed at an emergency summit convened by the IOC in Lausanne.
With the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) declaring both Kenya and Russia "non-compliant", IOC president Thomas Bach said athletes from those countries could no longer be "presumed innocent".
"We respect the statement made by the International Olympic Committee and fully support its zero tolerance approach to doping," said a statement from the Russian Ministry of Sport.
"Our Olympians are ready to go over and above all the normal anti-doping tests to show their commitment to clean and fair sport. We look forward to working closely with the international federations to determine how to assess eligibility."
The conciliatory nature of the statement, particularly when compared to earlier messages of defiance, suggests Russia realises the IOC could have been much tougher on them given the mounting evidence of state-sponsored cheating in recent years.
It is also telling that the Russian media has focused on Bach's comments that any Russian track and field athlete in Rio will be able to compete in Russian colours and under a Russian flag.
That is contrary to what the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) decided on Friday, when it voted to maintain the ban on Russia's athletics federation that has been in place since a WADA investigation uncovered systemic doping in November.
The IAAF left "a crack in the door" for what will probably be a very small number of Russian athletes who can demonstrate a clean record from credible testing agencies. But it was clear that those athletes should be in neutral colours, under an IOC flag.
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