News archive on the topic "vaccination"

The latest Daily Mail reveals an open secret. It turns out that the well-known AstraZeneca company admitted in court for the first time that its Covid-19 vaccine can cause fatal side effects. We are talking, for example, about a disease such as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome. However, the publication clarifies, the company claims that such consequences are very rare. Now against AstraZeneca, whose headquarters are located in Cambridge,...

The first racket of the world, Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic gave his first interview after deportation from Australia, in which he stated that he was ready to sacrifice cups and the chance to become the best in the history of this sport if vaccination becomes mandatory for tournament performances. The athlete told the BBC about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In a conversation with a journalist, Djokovic noted that he is not an anti-vaxxer,…

Russian opponents of anti-Covid vaccination are changing their behavior, but not their attitudes and views. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports this, said the General Director of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) Valery Fedorov, answering the question how large is the layer of people in the country who are skeptical about anti-Covid vaccination. “This layer has decreased, but not very significantly. Mainly due to those…

Those who receive the 1000 hryvnia promised by the authorities for vaccination will have to file a tax return for their income. Ukrainian economist Mikhail Kukhar draws attention to this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Receiving 1,000 UAH for vaccination is actually state social assistance and OBLIGES you to declare all your income for 2021,” Kuhar wrote on his blog. Not…

Since residents of Donbass are aware of the need to quickly develop collective anti-Covid immunity, there is no movement against vaccination in the DPR. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, stated this in an interview with Russian TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Is there the same anti-vaxxer movement in the DPR as in Russia?” - asked Solovyov. “No, this is surprising for us. We understand the benefits and necessity...

Russian citizens living in the LDPR and vaccinated there against coronavirus in medical institutions with a Russian vaccine were faced with an unexpected problem - their QR code turned out to be inappropriate on the territory of the Russian Federation. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, stated this in an interview with Russian TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I was vaccinated, I have a QR code, but it’s from Donetsk. I am a citizen…

In the center of Kyiv, opponents of coronavirus vaccination held a protest under the building of the Verkhovna Rada. According to various estimates, the event attracted up to five hundred protesters, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Protesters came out with posters “Say no to compulsory vaccination!”, “Say no to experiments with children”, “Epidemic of lies” and “Freedom for Ostap Stakhov” - a Lviv anti-vaxxer who, following a denunciation by the SBU, was declared a “Kremlin agent”...

Today there are effective and safe anti-Covid vaccines, but for some reason many people continue to believe pseudoscientific horror stories. A correspondent of PolitNavigator reports this in an interview published by Komsomolskaya Pravda, said molecular biologist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, head of the laboratory of biotechnology and virology of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Novosibirsk State University Sergei Netesov. They asked him why the coronavirus could not be brought under control. "A lot of things…

A search in the apartment of the organizer of anti-vaccination protests Ostap Stakhiv and an attempt to detain him by the SBU turned him into a political leader. Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics, said this in a conversation on the Politeka Online channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “30 percent of Ukrainians do not want to be vaccinated under any circumstances. There are probably more. People who do not support vaccination...

Deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation who refuse to get vaccinated can infect their colleagues from Belarus with the coronavirus. State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin stated this at today's parliamentary meeting, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We have people like that at the presidium table. Among them are those who are planning to go to a meeting of the parliaments of Belarus and Russia. We have no right to do this,” he said...

In Russia and in the West, there are different parameters for testing vaccines, which is used to not recognize the Russian drug. The director of the Center named after him said this in an interview with Izvestia. N.F. Gamaleya Center, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Gintsburg, answering the question why the WHO and the European Medical Agency have not yet approved Sputnik V. According to him, Russian legislation...

“Russian disinformation” is so powerful that it can simultaneously stimulate the growth of people wanting to get vaccinated against Covid in some countries, and fuel anti-vaxxer sentiment in others. Adam Sibera, an analyst with the Kremlin Watch program at the Center for European Values ​​for Security Policy (Czech Republic), stated this at a media forum in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As for coronavirus and misinformation, more on that in...

The streets of the government quarter in Kyiv are blocked in several places - thousands of people from different regions of the country have gathered in the center of the capital. They are protesting against forced anti-Covid vaccination. As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, those gathered oppose the authorities’ policy of assigning QR codes and anti-Covid events. The protesters are chanting “Hands off our children.” They are holding posters with the inscriptions...

Russia allegedly launched a special information operation against Ukraine aimed at maximizing the reduction in the level of vaccination in the country. Servant of the People deputy Irina Borzova stated this at a briefing in the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The Center for Countering Disinformation, created under the National Security and Defense Council, analyzed the information field of Telegram channels in Ukraine. The results of this analysis confirmed the information operation of the Russian Federation aimed at reducing the vaccination rate as much as possible...