Russia, another suspicious death: Sputnik vaccine scientist father strangled

One more death in Russia that leaves many doubts. Andrey Botikov, 47, one of the scientists who helped create the Russian vaccine against Covid-19, was “strangled to death with a belt”. This was reported by the Tass news agency, which also claims that the researcher was “murdered in his apartment in northwest Moscow”. Botikov worked for the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology on the Sputnik V vaccine. Tass adds that a 29-year-old man pleaded guilty to the murder. According to investigations, the murder occurred after a domestic dispute. Sputnik is a vaccine that does not contain the pathogen but uses some of the human adenovirus particles as a vector.