President Zuzana Čaputová will ask for an agreement on the purchase of Sputnik V. President Zuzana Čaputová met with the representatives of the State Institute for Drug Control on April 12. (Source: SITA) Font size:A + President Zuzana Čaputová has expressed her support for the Slovak scientists and scientific institutions that have tested the Sputnik V vaccine. She was also critical of the recent statements of Finance Minister Igor Matovič (OĽaNO) against the State Institute for Drug Control (ŠÚKL) and the Biomedical Research Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (BMC SAV) responsible for testing the vaccine, calling them inadequate and wrong. Such attacks only harm the trust of people in them, she added.