In recent days both the Russian officials – including President Vladimir Putin himself – and the Russian state media have been conducting a campaign to accuse the European Medicines Agency of blocking the approval of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in the EU. But this is not the case at all, and the vaccine is being checked in accordance with the EU procedures.
Russian authorities and state media accuse the European Medicines Agency (EMA) of deliberately delaying the approval procedure for the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V. President
Vladimir Putin mentioned this in his recent (April 21) state of the state address.
Accusations of this kind have been formulated several times by the Russian Ministry of the Interior, as well as by the state-owned Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) responsible for the sale of Sputnik V in the world.