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I'm not aware of information coming out of Russia that contradicts their official reporting, but I still find it extremely implausible that they have been so little impacts by the virus spread. But I'm flying blind on this speculation, I freely admit: Are typical travel patterns between Russia and the rest of Europe so minimal as to explain their decrease exposure?

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Maybe because they started testing early? Their first cases were in January and they screened everyone in airports since then [0], they performed 639606 tests with 4731 positives. [1][2]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-pneumonia-russi...

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing

Let's read some real news:

- https://meduza.io/en/news/2020/04/02/russian-public-health-a...

- https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/03/18/at-the-peak-we-could...

- https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/04/03/russian-doctors-unio...

That makes it sound about as sealed shut on speaking out as the Chinese were in the early days, only without the mass quarantines that they wouldn't be able to hide as easily. Either way it doesn't paint a good picture.

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