Media Corporation the new York times, which publishes the namesake newspaper, insists on the correctness of the publication of data COVID-19 in Russia, said Last news Vice-President of communications Daniel Rhodes. Commission of the state Duma had asked the foreign Ministry to provide exposure to the NYT and financial times after biased articles about COVID-19 until the withdrawal of the accreditation in the Russian Federation. Deputies also noticed that these articles appeared simultaneously. The head of the Council Vasily Piskarev has called unacceptable for the levels of those publications the appearance of these articles based on speculation, and does not represent the official Russian point of view. Later official representative of foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the editor of the FT and the NYT prepared letters of refutation published of misinformation about the coronavirus in Russia. They are obliged to give editors-in-chief through the embassies in the US and the UK. before the NYT published the advertisement with the name: "the Mystery of coronavirus explained - in the capital of Russia in 1700 additional deaths." In the publication referring to the information of the Moscow government stated that the mortality in the capital in April exceeded the average for the Last 5 years for 1, 7 thousands (monthly in the capital of Russia die about 10 thousand people). Officially counted deaths from the coronavirus in the capital at the time of publication was only 642, printed publication concluded that "substantial understatement" statistics of deaths from the coronavirus authorities, although the open data portal of the municipality to which it was referred, did not report the causes of death or reasons for the performance gains. The print edition has recognized that in many other countries registered a jump of death, which coincided with the pandemic. Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said that the Russian Federation had not manipulated the official statistics. According to the messenger who, conscious underreporting of mortality due COVID-19 is not in Russia. The latest information on the situation of COVID-19 in Russia and the world presented on the portal stopmanager. Of the Russian Federation. <span style="color:darkgray