After the official comment of the representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova Bloomberg renamed the material on mortality from COVID-19 in Russia. Earlier, a material called “Experts want to know why the coronavirus killed more Russians”, now it is entitled “Experts question about Russian data on mortality from COVID-19”. Agency comments: the title was changed because the authors “doubt in the methodology of statistics on victims COVID-19 in Russia.”
In the published article stated that Russia is wrong to count deaths from the coronavirus COVID-19, reminds RIA Novosti. Maria Zakharova in his Facebook said that such materials — evidence of a campaign of disinformation about Russia held in the West. She also recalled the words of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg that Russia and China want to change the world order with the help of a pandemic. But in a world where such articles are published with titles such as Bloomberg, “not all right,” said Zakharov.
After that article was renamed. Zakharov suggested that Bloomberg realized — the title is “creepy”. She also noted that the experts may have offended by the original name of the material.