The official representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova to the program “60 minutes” on the channel “Russia 1” on Tuesday called “a volley of fake” reports in the Western media about the alleged understated data on deaths from the coronavirus in the country.
Yesterday, the newspaper Financial Times, citing its own analysis and expert soesilo that in April in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg died at 72 per cent more people than average over the past 5 years.
Zakharova noted that in the mentioned publication there is no official position of Moscow. The article has quotes President Vladimir Putin and the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova, but they were delivered earlier.
“there can Not be such that when we are talking about objective journalism and is preparing material that will, in General, to expose, not listed relevant position of the Russian side for this topic. In this case, the prevailing view, only confirming the correctness of the stated thesis,” the diplomat said.
At the same time, Zakharov said that if the Western publication declared Moscow’s position, it is usually accompanied by comments. “Never, our information, which comes from the source — from officials — is never given out to Western journalists as it is, she always draped the opinions of many experts, such as officials, but on the other side,” — noted the spokesman.
According to the latest figures, Russia has registered about 232 thousand infected, 2116 died, 43.5 thousand recovered.
