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Political scientist Lozansky about Sputnik V: in the US, everything that comes from Russia meets suspicion President of the American University in Moscow, political scientist Eduard Lozansky said that in the United States there is a politicization of the issue of vaccination and a bias towards the Russian vaccine. He told Izvestia about this. According to him, pharmaceutical giants are behind this, since it is unprofitable for them to have foreign competitors, including Sputnik V, on the American market. He added that there is a bias in the United States towards everything Russian: “Everything that comes from Russia – from vaccines to ideas – meets with suspicion at best.” At the same time, if WHO approves the Russian vaccine, the United States will not have the opportunity to further not recognize it, the expert emphasized. Earlier, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev said that the

New York Governor Hawkul: Five cases of omicron strain recorded in New York State cases of infection with the omicron strain. This was announced by Governor Katie Hawkul on her Twitter page. “Five cases of omicron variant infection have been confirmed in New York State,” she wrote. Hawkul urged residents not to take this information as a cause for great anxiety. “We knew that this option was underway, and we have the tools to stop [it] spreading,” she explained. of those infected, identified in Minnesota, attended a conference in New York. The first case of infection with the omicron strain of coronavirus in New York was recorded on December 1. He was found in the state of California. According to the American authorities, the sick patient came from South Africa and was fully vaccinated.

Kommersant: Rospitsesoyuz proposed to allow poultry farmers to vaccinate chickens against bird flu of this virus in factories. Kommersant writes about this with reference to Galina Bobyleva, general director of the Rospotitssoyuz. According to veterinarians, products from vaccinated poultry are not harmful to humans. She said that on November 30, the Rospotitssoyuz made a proposal to the Ministry of Industry and Trade to allow industry enterprises to vaccinate the breeding herd, reproducers of the first and second order against highly pathogenic avian influenza. As Albert Davleev, President of Agrifood Strategies, explained, second-order reproducers are parent flocks that produce hatching eggs for commercial fattening or for egg production. First-order reproducers supply poultry for parent farms. Now vaccination of birds is allowed only in personal subsidiary plots (PSH), and the regions themselves decide whether to carry it out or not. The Ministry of Agriculture noted that ten regions at once announced plans

RDIF head Dmitriev: WHO does not approve Sputnik V vaccine due to bureaucratic obstacles Head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev, in an interview for the newspaper La Nacion, explained the delay in the approval of the Russian vaccine against the Sputnik V coronavirus by the World Health Organization (WHO) by bureaucratic obstacles. The Russian Ministry of Health maintains close ties with WHO, and we understand that there are still small obstacles on our way, but they are exclusively bureaucratic Kirill Dmitriev Head of RDIF According to Dmitriev, Moscow sees no particular reason why WHO is hesitant to recognize the vaccine, since the effectiveness of Sputnik V has been confirmed not only by publications in authoritative medical journals, but also by real data from around the world. He also noted that after the approval of the drug, vaccination will allow Russians to enter even more countries. Bureaucracy