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We investigate corruption, uncover fake news and analyze the news agenda. The BIC is a member of the global network of investigative journalists.

Our journalists are the recipients of the national award “Free Word” from the Association of Journalists of Belarus in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. At "Free Word" 2021 BIC’s team also received first place for Analytics

BIC is a member of the OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)

We are also members of GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network)

Antifake / Factcheck

Belarusian journalistic project against fake news and manipulations of officials and media. You can read about our team, principles and methodology via this link

Top fakes of the week 21 May A Belarus 1 anchor listed off Lithuania’s so-called “dead factories.” We found some of them are still very much alive

Sergei Gusachenko claimed the EU has driven industry off a cliff.

Fakes of the week

20 May Political analyst Jacek claimed the maps showing the joint liberation of Poland by Poles and Russians had disappeared. We found them

19 May Expert Tishchenko spoke about poverty in the EU. We looked into what poverty means by European standards

16 May Deputy Gigin said Slovakia had allowed May 9 celebrations. But was there ever a ban?

15 May How many Poles would leave if war broke out in Poland? We compared Deputy Buzin’s claims with the poll results

14 May Lukashenko exaggerated Nazi losses in the opening days of the Great Patriotic War. Here's by how much

Go to the Catalogue of Fakes

Antifake / Factcheck of previous weeks

Antifake / Factcheck Instead of 40% of Poles reporting they’ve grown poorer, the CTV anchor claimed it was nearly 70%

CTV covered a survey on how Poles assess their financial situation.

06 May 2025 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Political analyst Yelfimov: Three out of four university graduates in Europe are unemployed. Let’s check the facts

Belarusians should appreciate the opportunity to be assigned jobs after graduating, the host said.

05 May 2025 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Did the Poles really put up a monument to a drunken Soviet soldier rapist? Here’s what communist Kruglik didn’t tell you

Such a sculpture was installed in Gdansk in 2013.

02 May 2025 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Grandchildren of Nazis in power in the EU? We fact-checked the Russian professor’s claim

The WTF team has repeatedly debunked false claims about the relatives of German politicians.

01 May 2025 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck The Interior Ministry reassures: Migrants from Pakistan aren’t coming, and no crimes are being committed. We found both the migrants and the crimes

In early April, Lukashenko said he was ready to take in up to 150,000 Pakistanis along with their families.

30 April 2025 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Did Lukashenko save Belarus’ pig farming industry? Belstat's figures challenge BelTA's narrative

Pig farming has been under Lukashenko’s personal oversight since September 2023.

29 April 2025 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck While talking about decay in the Baltic states, Azarenok "shut down" the Belarus resort in Druskininkai. We nearly booked a room there

A WTF journalist called the Belarus resort posing as a customer.

28 April 2025 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Unless you cut ties with the motherland? Fact-checking the education minister’s claims about job prospects for Belarusians with foreign university degrees

Andrei Ivanets said the ministry is working to encourage their return.

25 April 2025 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck The host on Belarus 1 listed Ukrainian enterprises that had closed. We verified which of them that are still operational

The state television channel blamed oligarchs and the market for the collapse of Ukrainian industry.

24 April 2025 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Poland did not invite Israel, Belarus, and Russia to the Auschwitz liberation anniversary? Fact-checking the statement of the dean of the journalism faculty at BSU

Aleksei Belyaev added that former concentration camp guards attended the event instead of survivors and liberators.

23 April 2025 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck "Minsk Pravda": Belarus holds the top spot in the terrorist safety rankings. We checked what the actual ranking is

At least 64 countries have not experienced terrorist incidents in the past five years.

22 April 2025 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Will Belarus be among the first to launch 5G nationwide? We've looked into how many years behind we are and who is ahead of us

Authorities plan to cover the entire country with fifth-generation mobile networks by 2034.

21 April 2025 Read Article

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