https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.economist.com/europe/2020/05/21/russias-covid-19-outbreak-is-far-worse-than-the-kremlin-admits
The article is behind a paywall unfortunately, but the gist of it is official Covid-19 figures in Russia differ wildly from educated estimates based on Russian doctors’ independently-kept records.
Major cities like Moscow have been more forthright about the actual toll, and cracks in the facade are showing elsewhere in Russia.
Disinformation can only stretch the truth so far before it breaks.
