no, there's not such difference if...
- it's about a private company, yes, but one that makes more money than many States of this fuckin' world...
- it's about a company that's doing exactly the same thing that the Russian (and the not yet directly involved Chinese) government is doing...use of (former) secret agents to cover up things and intimidate possible witnesses included (try to find and read the report on that scandal released by the US Senate commission that investigates on it)...
-it's about the fact that if it wasn't for someone named Barry Bonds and his audition in front of a commission of the US Senate (another one, not the same of the NOP), the whole BALCO scandal would have been covered up big time...
and then we could start speculating also over many other Western Nations (from Spain to Italy, from GBR to Australia) and why not? all Russia's friends (from Belarus to Kazakhstan and so on)...
to me, it's really not the case to make any difference between a "private" or a "public" system trying to cheat only because of the different lifestyle and political situation of the most different places in this world...
and I'm not trying to take the Russian part in this case...they clearly made what they're accused of and therefore they must pay (and must pay a big, big prize) for that (just, please, save me from the "no Flag farce", as I wrote before)...
I'd only like to see a bit more coherence in the people's comments and in the sports/disciplinary authorities decisions...just that (meanwhile right now it seems that there's a clear good party opposed to a clear bad party...and it's definitely not like this)...