Russia, too many delays in deliveries: Sputnik vaccine diplomacy struggles

MOSCOW – The Twitter profile of Russian Sputnik V vaccine from almost 706 thousand followers he is always hyperactive. “With the registration in Chile – he pointed out just a few days ago – Sputnik V is now authorized in 69 countries”. Since the Russian president last August 11 Vladimir Putin announced that Russia had registered the first vaccine against Covid-19 in the world and had baptized it as the first satellite launched into space by the then USSR, the goal has always remained the same: to use the vaccine as a diplomacy tool for to claim the role of world power as in the times of the Cold War and to conquer new spaces of geopolitical influence.