Researchers have shown that vaccines are likened with countries’ power and international influence during the Covid-19 pandemic whereby they have raised a note of caution for what this may mean for the portrayal of vaccines. This thesis explores how Russia has narrated the Russian vaccine Sputnik V to bring further insights to how they try to influence foreign beliefs about the Russian state and international relations. Using the theory of strategic narrative, the thesis conducts a narrative analysis to explore how the state-sponsored media outlet RT portrayed the vaccine in relation to actors, settings, conflicts, and resolutions as well as it delves into how the narrative was constructed by contesting others and promoting the self. The analysis identified five subplots which together portray Sputnik V to be a good vaccine that undeservingly has received a bad reputation. The result adds to research on Russia’s strategic narration as it shows that RT contests other actors by narrating them as weak, suppressed and in need of direction even though the focus is on Sputnik V. It also shows how RT mixes this narration with self-promotion by portraying how Russia cooperates with other actors to produce and distribute vaccines. The thesis also shows that RT alternates between emotional and factual language depending on if the narration contests other actors or promotes the self.