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image captionRussia authorised the single-dose version of Sputnik jab on Thursday
President Vladimir Putin has heralded Russia s vaccine offering as reliable as a Kalashnikov assault rifle .
The comment was made during a video conference on Thursday with Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova.
It came as the country s health officials registered a single-dose version of the Sputnik V vaccine on Thursday, dubbed Sputnik Light.
Mr Putin s comparison referenced the Soviet Union-era weapon that remains popular and widely used still today.
He was quoting a comment originally made by an Austrian doctor earlier this year about the jab s efficacy.
Kremlin uses conscription to silence political dissent
AFP, MOSCOW
In December 2019, police officers visited Ruslan Shaveddinov’s Moscow apartment, sawed through the door and placed him in handcuffs before whisking him away for forced military service in the Arctic.
Denied access to a cellphone a breach of the rules, the 25-year-old opposition advocate said he had to correspond with his loved ones via handwritten letters that took weeks to arrive.
“They sent me as far away as possible,” the ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said.
Sequestered for one year to a military post accessible only by helicopter and surrounded by roaming polar bears, Shaveddinov said that he and the other four soldiers at the base even had to melt snow for drinking water.
2006: Istanbul-based freight forwarder Advance International has made use of international agency plans to re-establish reliable landbridge routes between the two continents.
Russia s Power and Purpose in a New Global Order
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January 9, 2021
Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order | Kathryn E. Stoner | Oxford University Press | February 2021.
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t seems that every four years, upon the election or re-election of a president, the United States undertakes a new Russia policy. Whether it is a “reset” or “overcharge”, intimate eye-gazing or burger diplomacy, or a strange and unrequited courtship dance, Washington attempts to recreate policy towards Moscow and consistently fails. This is, perhaps, the consequence of the foundations of America’s policy towards Russia which rests upon outdated and inaccurate assumptions about the country.