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Matovič secretly arranges Sputnik V vaccine purchase

On 1 March 2021 the first doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine arrived at Košice airport under a deal for 2 million doses arranged by Prime Minister Igor Matovič without coalition agreement; he and Health Minister Marek Krajčí met the shipment. The secret purchase triggered a government crisis that ended with Matovič's cabinet resigning on 30 March.

Igor Matovič (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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On 1 March 2021 the first doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine arrived at Košice airport under a deal for 2 million doses arranged by Prime Minister Igor Matovič without coalition agreement; he and Health Minister Marek Krajčí met the shipment. The secret purchase triggered a government crisis that ended with Matovič's cabinet resigning on 30 March.

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  • Igor Matovič

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    Matovič secretly arranges Sputnik V vaccine purchase. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  2. 2.aljazeera.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: sputnik+matovi · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Matovič secretly arranges Sputnik V vaccine purchase. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/matovic-sputnik-v-purchase-2021-03-01

https://factrail.ai/facts/matovic-sputnik-v-purchase-2021-03-01

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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