# Russia registers Sputnik V before completing phase-3 publication

Date: 2020

## The fact

On 11 August 2020 the Russian health ministry registered Gam-COVID-Vac (Sputnik V) as a COVID-19 vaccine, with [Putin](/people/vladimir-putin) announcing the decision. Phase-3 results were published later in The Lancet.

## Context

The Gamaleya centre developed the adenovirus-vector product. Putin said one of his daughters had been vaccinated. Regulators signed; the ministry registered; later export deals went to partner states. He did not pipette the trial.

Later Lancet publication is a neighbouring scientific instrument. Foreign registrations are neighbouring partner acts.

The president of the Russian Federation is commander-in-chief and can issue decrees, sign statutes the Federal Assembly has passed, and represent the state abroad. He does not write UN General Assembly resolutions, ICC warrants, or European Council conclusions.

## Evidence and sources

President of Russia carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [vaccine accessibility](/drivers/vaccine-accessibility) and [pandemic preparedness](/drivers/pandemic-preparedness): a completed domestic registration can speed a campaign at home and in partner states. Early registration before full phase-3 publication is also a documented confidence cost. Those are separate mechanisms on one instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: an 11 August 2020 Russian registration of Sputnik V announced by Putin, with later peer-reviewed phase-3 publication.

Not established: WHO emergency listing on that day, or a unique later global-mortality coefficient from the announcement hour.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The health ministry signed. Gamaleya developed the construct.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Russia registers Sputnik V before completing phase-3 publication on 2020-08-11 is not a licence to treat every later President of Russia communique as this same act. This dossier refuses to average Russia registers Sputnik V before completing phase-3 publication into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He announced and politically owned the registration. The health ministry signed. Gamaleya developed the construct. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Vladimir Putin: https://factrail.ai/people/vladimir-putin

## Drivers

- Vaccine Accessibility: https://factrail.ai/drivers/vaccine-accessibility
- Pandemic Preparedness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/pandemic-preparedness

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-vaccine-idUSKCN25712U
- https://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/63807

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ru-sputnik-v-2020