Peskov rejoiced at the publication of the Sputnik V vaccine in the Lancet; The Kremlin was not interested in the article about Navalny’s poisoning

President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov praised an article about the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in the medical journal Lancet . His words are quoted by TASS.

“This is a very important publication, which very convincingly demonstrated the reliability and effectiveness of the Russian vaccine and which, among other things, confirmed the justification for the accelerated registration of this vaccine in the Russian Federation,” Peskov said.

Earlier, when the press secretary was asked to comment on the publication of doctors in the same magazine about the poisoning of politician Alexei Navalny, he replied that in the Kremlin “they don’t read medical publications.”

doctors Charite On December 23, published medical journal an article in the Lancet , “Poisoning with the Novichok nerve agent,” in which they described the politician’s treatment process. The article does not name Navalny, but describes the hospitalization of a 44-year-old man from Russia with symptoms of severe poisoning.

The oppositionist was taken to Charite two days after the poisoning. Before that, he was in an Omsk hospital.