It is an inauspicious fall for a vaccine whose arrival stunned the world.
first country to approve a coronavirus vaccineRussia hoped its vaccine would be used worldwide to help stop the pandemic, that the shot would bring geopolitical and economic gains and restore its glory as a superpower, lost with the fall of the Soviet Union. The country named its vaccine Sputnik V after the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, developed in 1957, which beat out the United States in the space race.
Just as Gamaleya and RDIF were trying to rehabilitate their vaccine in February with new research promoting it as a universal booster, Russia invaded its western neighbor. Four days later, the United States sanctioned RDIF, and in March, the European Union followed suit. In a separate letter sent last week to The Washington Post, RDIF’s general counsel, Mikhail Irzhevsky, stressed that the sovereign wealth fund “always fully complies with laws of the countries where it conducts its investments” and that “defamatory and denigrating statements made by the Biden Administration about RDIF have absolutely no basis and represent a blatant violation of the Fund’s rights.
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