Rosstat fired a demographer who analyzed coronavirus mortality data

Demographer Aleksey Raksha was fired from the Federal State Statistics Service on July 3. this Raksha reports on his Facebook.

“My work at Rosstat is over. The idea is not mine and not Rosstat,” writes Alexey Raksha. He worked as an adviser in the department of demographic calculations, as follows from the minutes of one of the meetings of Rosstat.

The demographer was the first to draw attention to the information that in April 2020, the death rate in Moscow increased by 20% compared to the average data for the previous ten years, noted . Mediazona

Alexey Raksha also acted as an expert in studies of coronavirus mortality statistics published on Mediazone and Meduza .