Emerging Europe this week Central Europe Doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine that triggered a political crisis and the resignation of the prime minister in Slovakia should not be administered yet because of incomplete or inaccurate information from the manufacturer, the country’s national medicines agency said this week. The Dennik N news site quoted the agency as saying it could not properly assess the shots, which it said were different from the vaccine whose favourable peer-reviewed late-stage trial results were published in The Lancet medical journal in February. The Slovakian president, Zuzana Čaputová, last week named Eduard Heger as prime minister after his predecessor, Igor Matovič resigned over his secret purchase of the Russian vaccines.