The poor GRU
The poor GRU must be awfully busy. When the Dutch police caught those 3 guys war-driving outside the OPCW HQ in the Hague they had a look on their computers and found that they'd also been in Geneva trying to hack into a Swiss WADA lab as well.
Which seems a bit odd really. I mean, I can well understand deploying your nation's intelligence services when you've just fucked up murdering an ex-spy with massively illegal chemical weapons on foreign soil. While it doesn't exactly speak well of your morals, it shows a perfectly reasonable sense of proportion. But when you're also using the same team (always at high risk of exposure abroad) to try to hack into the World Anti-Doping Authority to try and cover-up your Olympic level cheating - that rather seems like a massive over-reaction. Particularly as covering it up at this point was pretty much impossible. You might be able to cast doubt on some of the tests being done at that lab, or even just get some embarrassing emails to leak and try to look a bit more like the victim of a nasty conspiracy. But by that point the cheating was just too well-documented to cover up.
What I think the Russian government need is a nice cup of tea and sit down, with someone sympathetic to offer them a few biccies and tell them to calm the fuck down. Their problem seems to be that they want to be perceived as badass supervillains, at the same time they want to be liked and respected.