India has granted EUA to the vaccine and the local manufacturer expects that 130-150 million Indians will receive this vaccine during the current year.[1] That is more than the entire population of Russia.<p>> “Sputnik V has become a tool of soft power for Russia,” said Michal Baranowski, a fellow with a US thinktank, the German Marshall Fund of the United States. “It’s planted its flag on the vaccine and the political goal of its strategy is to divide the west.”<p>Divide the West, eh? It is not very different from what Western powers have been doing in Russia's backyard for decades.<p>All these politicians and political analysts whining about Russian soft power should keep their traditional Russophobic positions to the side for a moment and answer one simple question: does the vaccine work?<p>1. <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/vaccine-updates/story/sputnik-v-to-be-available-in-india-from-may-exclusive-interview-with-dr-reddy-s-deepak-sapra-1795521-2021-04-27" rel="nofollow">https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/vaccine-updat...</a>
Nobody is <i>forcing</i> anybody to use the Russian vaccine.<p>You want it? It's (generally) available.<p>On the other hand, you want to wait for one of the western vaccines? That's OK, too.<p>Your move.