Hey, everybody, my guest today is Riley Wagman, who is an American writer who lives in Moscow.

He was until recently a senior editor at RTTV, he's lived in Moscow since 2013,

and he's written some piercing articles not only on things that I hadn't read back to anything like this before

Russia's Sputnik vaccine, I'd say you're probably the world's expert on that as far as anybody

says, and also the links, the very peculiar and surprising links between Russian

oligarchs and the world economic forum, and I wanted to have you on to give you an unusual

views about all these things, and you have an unusual knowledge base. So tell us a little bit

about how you end up in Moscow. Well, I started my writing career after college, worked in

Washington DC, writing about US politics, got extremely burnt out within a year, and I just sort

of ended up migrating. I first I was in the Czech Republic, and I just sort of kept migrating East,

and I found myself actually first in Pushkortistan, which is Republic in Russia, and I did a little

bit of, I did what all young Americans do, and they don't know what to do, they teach English,

right? So I taught a little English in Pushkortistan, and this happened, and once I arrived in Russia,

it was when Ukraine crisis started, the original Ukraine crisis, my dawn. So I was like, wow,

this is so crazy, because I sort of came to Russia to get away from the world, you know? And now

I'm sort of back in the center of all these geopolitical craziness, and I guess I should

write about it. So I ended up just moving back to Moscow, and starting to write again, just on

Russian-related issues, and just as an American, I thought that I had some value to add to that debate

discussion. So I've been here basically ever since. Well, give us the briefing on this vaccine.

The Sputnik vaccine is really a fascinating drug, especially because I feel like, especially in

the West, you almost hear nothing about what's really behind this, how it was developed.

Is it safe or not? And it's such a fascinating, just the sort of chronology, if you trace it back

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