Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary to the US treasury and is now retired. At 84 retired and with experience at the highest level in the US government he is able to speak openly and with authority about what is happening. He is an honest man and not constrained to regurgitate MSM drivel.
Do you have any basis for saying that he is a paid propaganda mouthpiece. There is an expession "pot calls the kettle black".
You are correct that Russia's sputnik vaccine is not an mRNA vaccine.
However Navalny was in West Germany until Feb 21 and was imprisoned sometime after his return to Russia.
Likely with western assistance he would have had access to "the best" western vaccines.
