'Only time will tell': Russia places huge bet on Covid vaccine

Country will be giving 10m doses of Sputnik V a month by December, says head of fund backing vaccine

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For Kirill Dmitriev, the man in charge of selling Russia's coronavirus vaccine to the world, there's a simple rationale behind Moscow's accelerated push to be the first country to roll out a coronavirus vaccine for widespread use.

It's part of the Russian mentality to save the world," said Dmitriev, head of Russia's RDIF sovereign wealth fund, in an interview with the Guardian.