History of San Marino: Difference between revisions

As of June 2020, San Marino had the highest death rate per capita of any country, due to the effects of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>[http://www.iss.sm/on-line/home/articolo49014350.html "Gruppo coordinamento emergenze sanitarie: aggiornamento dati sull’Infezione COVID-19"], Istituto per la Sicurezza Sociale, Repubblica di San Marino, 29 April 2020 (in Italian)</ref> In April 2021, the nation received headlines for using the Russian [[Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine]] rather than vaccines approved by the EU following a slow rollout for the latter vaccines.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/sanmarino-covid-vaccine-sputnik/?itid=hp-top-table-main "San Marino, the micronation within Italy, stokes envy with speedy Russian-supplied vaccine campaign"], Washington Post, 2 April 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/world/europe/italy-san-marino-sputnik-vaccine.html/?itid=hp-top-table-main "Shut Out on Vaccines, Tiny San Marino Turns to Old Friend: Russia"], New York Times, 2 April 2021</ref>

 

 

On 7 March 2022, during the Russia-Ukraine War, the Russian Kremlin released a list of countries, via Twitter, who it considered "unfriendly" to Russia. San Marino was included in the list, alongside numerous well known Russian adversaries such as the United States of America and countries in the European Union. The motivation for including San Marino as an "unfriendly" nation was unclear and gained substantial attention on the Internet.<ref>{{cite web |first=Isabel |last=van Brugen |url=https://www.newsweek.com/russia-list-unfriendly-countries-1685468 |title=Russia Releases Lengthy List Of 'Unfriendly' Countries |publisher=Newsweek.com |date=7 March 2022 |access-date=14 March 2022}}</ref>