Marek Krajci
Matovic Seen Digging His Own Political Grave with Sputnik Vanity Project
Matovic's sudden visits to Moscow and Budapest last week in an attempt to salvage the 200,000 Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines that he secretly procured in early March, yet have lain unused in Slovak warehouses since, took even his coalition partners by surprise.
Reporting Democracy: Politics Suffers Side Effects from COVID Vaccines
Matovic insisted in a Facebook post that the Russian jab, yet to be approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), is of high quality and the 2 million doses that are expected to be delivered by the end of June, the taking of which will be entirely "voluntary", can speed up the country's troubled vaccination program by 40%.