let's get real, mr dmitriev.ea by russia as completely unacceptable. he said just a few days ago, "we will not hesitate "to raise the cost on russia and defend our vital "interests and our people. "the days of the us rolling over with regard to putin "and russia are over." now, you are a businessman trying to encourage western investors that russia's a great place to put their money. frankly, with sanctions in place and maybe going to get tougher, it doesn't look that way. well, as i told you, we already are investing and continue to invest with major funds around the world. russia continues to generate great returns and it's a very promising economy in many sectors, including high technology and health care, as we mentioned about vaccines, and all i can do is to do my role and i actually talked at one of the think tanks, to actually somebody who is very negative on russia and has been very negative on russia historically, "look, we are at such a critical point right now, we're at a very dangerous point. "i, the

here's more from kirill dmitriev.rget about them and really focus on our vaccine being one of the best, because there are only three vaccines with efficacy of more than 90%. sputnik works in a similar way to the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. newly released data shows that has an effectiveness of 82%. and both offer complete protection against hospitalisation and death from covid—19. these vaccines use a cold—type virus, engineered to be harmless, to deliver a fragment of coronavirus to the body. it makes the immune system primed to fight the virus if it encounters it for real. it's also relatively inexpensive to produce and doesn't need to be stored at super—cold temperatures. but russia still needs to make it at scale, and that's where it may face difficulties. as our health correspondent jim reed explains. this vaccine is different from others in that it needs two doses, but both those doses are slightly different, that is deliberate, to provoke a stronger immune response but it makes the production more complicated,