The number of cases China is reporting in travelers arriving from Russia strongly suggests that Russia is significantly underreporting the scope of its outbreak.

Moscow's metro has been a mess the last few days as big crowd waiting for permission checking:

https://varlamov.ru/3860702.html

This is exactly why I don't understand where people are getting the idea Russia is doing a good job of managing this!

That looks like a lot of things, but it sure as heck doesn't look like a lockdown, certainly doesn't look like one that is going to be anywhere near as effective as the lockdowns in other jurisdictions. Crowding like that is absurd.

Add to that the fact that they share a large border with China and were pretending to have no cases for at least a solid month or so. As the article I linked to stated, they have even given up on the propaganda effort at this point. Even the authorities in Russia whose specialty is self-deception know which way this is headed now!

That positive rate is far too low. If you get < 15% anywhere with a proven widespread outbreak you aren't doing enough testing.

That doesn't make sense to me. If you have a proven widespread outbreak and test everyone in your country, the number's still going to be below 15%.

15% seems to be an average number for an area with known community spread. It was in Korea, it was in Germany.

If you are getting less than that, you aren't testing enough people. ALso if your number is far higher you might be only testing dire cases.

You have it backwards. If your positivity rate continues to plummet as testing ramps up it points to the inverse. See other nations with wide spread testing and low positivity rates, namely Australia, NZ, Taiwan, UAE.