Published 2019. It’s out of date.
The Ukraine War has brought with it an enormous crackdown on press freedom within Russia.
China is certainly a major country and rivals current-day Russia in censoriousness. They’re two peas in a pod.
Those others on the list? Debatable whether they qualify as “major.”
Example: North Korea’s only plausible claim to major country status is its ownership of nuclear weapons. Otherwise, it’s a basket case.