Enlarge / The Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) French authorities are investigating whether the Russian government is behind an effort to spread dangerous lies about Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine as part of a disinformation campaign peddled to French bloggers and influencers. In recent days, several French influencers have […]
Enlarge / Vials of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 are seen at the Boris Trajkovski sports hall in Skopje as the country starts its vaccination campaign, after months of difficulties on April 16, 2021. (credit: Getty | ROBERT ATANASOVSKI) Health regulators in Brazil say that doses of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine contain a […]
Enlarge / Former Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovic wears a face mask as he gives a press statement at the International Airport in Kosice, Slovakia, on March 1, 2021, after an aircraft of the Slovak Army arrived from Moscow, carrying doses of the Sputnik V vaccine against Covid-19. (credit: Getty | Peter Lazar) Russia has […]
Enlarge / Picture of vials of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, seen at the Cotahuma Hospital in La Paz, Bolivia. (credit: Jorge Bernal/Getty Images) Yesterday, the people behind Russia’s leading vaccine, termed Sputnik V, issued a preliminary analysis of its function. The news was quite good: while the trial is […]
Expand / Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. (charge: Getty | Mikhail Klimentyev ) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday declared the 2nd questionable acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine which hasn’t yet been assessed in clinical trials. The disease, called EpiVacCorona, is reportedly a faux peptide-based vaccine, that uses fragments of this virus, SARS-CoV-2, to induce protective […]
Expand / Russian President Vladimir Putin speech the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, through teleconference telephone, at Moscow on September 22, 2020. (charge: Getty | MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV) Some United Nations employees are probably cleaning up in their Russian–especially the way to say”Thank you, but no thanks” from the best way possible. On […]