Dmitry Medvedev. Archival photoMOSCOW, Jan 28Russia is promoting the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine for export because it is a highly effective vaccine that works against various strains, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with RIA Novosti and other leading Russian media.
"As for what we are promoting for export. We promote, indeed, mainly "Sputnik". For one simple reason: this is a highly effective vaccine, and this has been proven by all the experience and experience associated with the use of this vaccine against various strains,» Medvedev said in response to the question why Russia did not begin to promote to the world market all developed in the country vaccines.
According to him, «there is always a feeling that if the state promotes something, offers, if there is a lot of it, then it is worse than something that is not enough, and what is not being promoted.» «Or so worse than any foreign one — well, it is clear that a foreign pill is always better than its own.But in fact it is not so, and Sputnik is indeed a highly effective vaccine, which, by the way, works to a large extent even more efficiently with respect to 
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