During the COVID-19 pandemic, Russian authorities rejected claims of underreported deaths and criminalized 'false information' about public safety threats in 2020.

From the articleHow Moscow’s secrecy about a suspected plague case follows a Soviet-era patternAlso in ‘Not great, not terrible’: Why nobody trusts Russia to tell the truth about plague, Moscow's Secrecy About Suspected Plague Case Follows a Pattern From the Soviet Era