CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev MOSCOW, January 13 Big Pharma companies are lobbying for sanctions against the Russian Direct Investment Fund in order to hinder the promotion of the Sputnik vaccine in the world, said the head of the fund, Kirill Dmitriev. — to prevent Sputnik from saving lives, ”Dmitriev said during a session of the Gaidar Forum“ Investment partnerships as protection against a pandemic. ” Hungary called the situation with the non-recognition of Sputnik V in the EU political He noted that the expert community should and can discuss such sensitive topics, since unfair competition in such matters has humanitarian consequences for a large number of countries and people. Sha on Wednesday presented a bill on sanctions against Russia in the event of an escalation of the situation around Ukraine. In particular, he prescribes in this case to impose sanctions against three or more Russian financial organizations from the list, which includes: Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, VEB, Rosselkhozbank, RDIF, Credit Bank of Moscow, Alfa Bank, FC Otkritie, Promsvyazbank , Sovcombank, Transcapitalbank. At the same time, the first five of these 12 organizations are already under sectoral sanctions. «Sputnik V» is approved in 71 countries with a total population of 4 billion people, which is more than 50% of the world's population. Sputnik V ranks second in the world in terms of the number of approvals received by state regulators. RIA Novosti is the media partner of the Gaidar Forum. RDIF will publish important data on the effectiveness of «Sputnik» against the «omicron»