Vladimir Putin had announced it in one sentence the day before during a video conference: he received his first anti-Covid injection on Tuesday evening, three months after having made the promise and while the campaign vaccine is slowing down in Russia.
The information was confirmed by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who however did not specify which serum the Russian president was injected with, Sputnik V, the first vaccine developed in the country, or one of the other two since.
Dmitry Peskov made a little smile, specifying that the head of the Kremlin would not be vaccinated in front of the cameras, because
"he does not like it"
...
Read also: Covid-19: can we do without the Sputnik V vaccine?
But images or not, the affair is eminently political, even geopolitical, as it occurs in an international context exacerbated by the pandemic.
On Monday, in fact, at the same time as he announced his imminent vaccination, Vladimir Poutine replied to the words of the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, who had
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