Lessons to be learned from Kremlin’s vaccine diplomacy and Vrbetice attack

It seems that Russian vaccine diplomacy is better at triggering political crises than at convincing people to get vaccinated by Sputnik V, writes Miroslava Sawiris. Miroslava Sawiris is a Research Fellow for Democracy and Resilience at the GLOBSEC Policy Institute….

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