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Antifake / Factcheck CTV portrayed Vilnius as one of the leaders in public transport price increases. However, in terms of price increases for long-term public transport tickets, it ranks tenth out of 14

Greenpeace compared long-term public transport tickets in European capitals. In Vilnius, for example, they have risen in price by around 10% over three years.

10 October 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Did the population of Baranavichy decline under Polish rule? The Main Broadcast left out a footnote in the statistical data

Excluding people temporarily housed in barracks, the censuses show that the population nearly doubled between 1921 and 1931.

09 October 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Azaronak claimed that Belarusians and Westerners have “completely different values.” Here is what the surveys show

In Belarus, as well as in the U.S. and the U.K., family, health, and money were among the top values.

05 October 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck A Belarusian Radio host compared the poverty levels in Belarus and its neighboring countries. Here is why his figures are misleading

For Belarus, he cited the share of people earning below the subsistence minimum, while for neighboring countries, he used an indicator based on different criteria.

04 October 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Sprats for the Spaniards, ban on brandy? EU restrictions invented by Radio Minsk

In 2025, the Baltic States caught nearly 45,000 metric tons of sprat, and Moldova produced over 3 million liters of brandy.

03 October 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck The referendum that never happened: How state TV portrayed the annexation of Western Belarus to the BSSR in 1939

Anchor Ksenia Lebedzeva stated that the Red Army attacked Poland because the USSR wanted to “protect its own people.”

02 October 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Was Poland planning to carve up the USSR together with Hitler? CTV presented Germany’s proposals as an agreed-upon plan

Hermann Göring proposed forming an anti-Soviet alliance with Poland. However, Józef Piłsudski did not support the idea.

01 October 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “The decline in education is a pan-European trend.” How CTV interpreted the PISA test results

Belarus and Russia did not participate in the study.

24 September 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Is Belarus the seventh safest country in the world? We fact-checked a post from the Belarus Zdes project

Belarus’s highest position in the major international rankings is 41st in the “Order and Security” category.

23 September 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck €1,000 for a piece of concrete? A Belarusian Radio host grossly overstated the cost of the fortifications along the Baltic Defense Line

In a Latvian tender, “dragon’s teeth” were offered at €249–258 each.

22 September 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck A million hectares in two months? How Editors’ Club hosts “handed out” Ukrainian land to foreigners

On News.by, nearly five years of data were attributed to the first two months of 2026, and all of the land buyers were portrayed as foreign.

21 September 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Will grain prices for Germans and French consumers triple? Syrakvash presented Latvia’s transit tariff as a threat to European prices

During the previous season, Russia and Belarus accounted for just 0.06% of the EU’s grain imports.

20 September 2026 Read Article