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Belarusian journalistic project against fake news and manipulations of officials and media. You can read about our team, principles and methodology via this link
A Belarus 1 host claimed that highly skilled professionals are leaving Germany for Australia, Japan and the U.S. The WTF team looked into the actual numbers.
WTF team reviewed the British business paper’s story and found that Baltnews got it wrong.
In Belarus, the average pension is about 800 rubles, or roughly €220—three and a half times less than in Estonia.
Polish analyst Tomasz Gryguć claimed that Poles support Lukashenko. The WTF team investigated how far his statements are from reality.
In fact, the opposite is true in Lithuania: there are too many arrivals.
Some categories are entitled to medicines on prescription with a 90% discount.
We found a photo of two men with tattoos on the Instagram of one of them. He published it before the war, in August 2020.
The National Bank of Belarus prognoses that the inflation rate will not exceed 6% in 2024.
The “ZhS Premium” did not specify that the list included only some countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
“Belarusian vehicles, like Swiss ones, are a global brand. Approximately every tenth tractor on the planet is a ‘Belarus’ tractor.”
The Weekly Top Fake team has discovered the origin of the video.
In Belarus, there is a shift away from supporting integration with Russia, while the EU traction is the same.
