What I'd like to ask you is: As Russia seeks to boost its credentials as a location for international trials, what would Putin gain by interfering in an international COVID trial when many Russians don't trust the Russian Government and their "Sputnik" vaccine and won't take anything from the Puitin's government?
Putin is not under any internal pressure to produce anything for COVID and most Russians would probably be happy without any COVID input from the Putin administration.
If Putin were to take the actions you think him capable then he would clearly be doing himself more harm than good. He would be tarnishing his country's international reputation as a good location for international clinical trials and all for a treatment that it's doubtful Russians would even use.
Putin may be a highly-despicable human being but I've never heard anyone accuse him of being stupid.
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