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Our journalists have received theHans Staiger Investigative Award from the International Center for Journalists; the Free Media Award from the ZEIT-Stiftung Bucerius and the Fritt Ord Foundation; and the Data Journalism Award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. Our Dubai Unlocked project was also shortlisted for the Sigma Awards.
Between 2018 and 2026, our journalists received 11 Belarusian Volnaye Slova Awards.
BIC is a member of the OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)
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Sergei Chaly has identified a project initiated by Lukashenko that has a realistic chance of being successfully implemented. The analyst also explains the factors behind the growth of Belarus’s GDP.
Russia and Belarus held the Forum of Regions, where it became clear that everything is going well with Union State goods, while the situation is significantly worse with all other categories of trade.
The National Bank has boasted of another victory over inflation, the light industry sector has highlighted “innovations” dating back to the 1970s, while Alexander Lukashenko stated that he is counting on “three African golds.”
For his new five-year term, Lukashenko is planning a new phase in relations with China. In the meantime, however, there is a minor issue involving Chinese engines used in Belarusian tractors.