Despite sharing a 4,000km border with China, Russia has so far been trailing far behind Beijing as well as the US, Italy, and its European neighbours as far as confirmed COVID-19 cases and even further in terms of fatalities. The issue has landed Moscow on the radar of Western media, yet again unleashing a new wave of Russia-bashing.
“Mainstream media coverage of the coronavirus situation in Russia has been most ugly in the United States, where the Information War on Russia is not being abandoned even though the overwhelming interest of the public is on the ‘home front’ and how the disease is spreading there, the daily death toll, and the economic impact”, says Gilbert Doctorow, a Brussels-based independent political analyst.
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