Paul Goble
Staunton, July 28 – The Russian government continues to cut back in the amount of data it publishes on sensitive issues. The latest move was by the interior ministry which has stopped publishing data on those who have died as a result of criminal acts including homicides and accidents for which someone was legally liable, the To Be Precise portal says.
No such data have been published since April, and none arrayed according to regions and republics this year at all, it reports (t.me/tochno_st/582 reposted at meduza.io/news/2025/07/29/mvd-rossii-perestalo-publikovat-dannye-o-kolichestve-pogibshih-v-rezultate-prestupleniy).
Other Russian government outlets also have stopped publishing data, especially about regions, on a monthly or quarterly basis or even totally. One data source on which many had relied, for example, the Unified Inter-Departmental Information-Statistical System appears to have stopped releasing such information (zona.media/news/2025/07/29/mvd).
According to independent Russian demographer Aleksey Raksha, Moscow has imposed restrictions on the release of data by the regions so that analysts will not be able to compensate for an end to the release of all-Russia data by means of adding up reports from the regions and then projecting a total for the country (t.me/RakshaDemography/4989).
To the extent Raksha is right, analysts in Russia and in the West will find themselves in a more difficult position than even their predecessors did in the Brezhnev era.
No comments:
Post a Comment