BIC is a member of the OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)
We are also members of GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network)
Belarusian journalistic project against fake news and manipulations of officials and media. You can read about our team, principles and methodology via this link
They also said nothing about Belarus’ own numbers. Again.
Host Volha Korshun spoke about a sharp rise in prices in Latvia. We found that food prices in Belarus have been climbing even faster.
Fact-checking political analyst Vadzim Baravik’s claim that “in Europe, secure truck parking costs five times more.”
The lavish interiors actually belong to a defendant in a Russian corruption case.
The host of “Azaronak. Directly” claimed that 320,000 Ukrainian citizens have moved to Belarus since 2022.
Politicians claimed the Port of Klaipeda was on the brink of collapse after Lithuania imposed sanctions on Belarus.
Aliaksei Bialiajeu claimed that Poland and Lithuania are dependent on the United States, so they kept paying American troops out of their own pockets.
More than half of respondents in Poland say they view Russia negatively.
In reality, the blackout in the Lithuanian capital had entirely different causes.
Europe or Asia and Africa?
Ekaterina Tikhomirova spoke about Belarusians’ supposedly high purchasing power.
…while the BIC uncovered how teenagers in Belarus are being prepared for a military future under the banner of “patriotic education.”
