Prognosis
Putin Battles to Sell Russia’s Vaccine in New Rift With West
- Regulators dash hopes of quick approval for Sputnik V abroad
- Putin regularly promotes Russian vaccine to other leaders
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Russia is accusing the West of maligning its achievements in the global race to defeat Covid-19 as attempts to win key markets for its Sputnik V vaccine run up against the demands of regulators.
“We understand the game,” Kirill Dmitriev, chief executive officer of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, which backed Sputnik V’s development and negotiates its international roll-out, said in an interview. “It’s a combination of some misunderstanding, some strong bias and, really, some very strong efforts to undermine the Russian vaccine.”