Belarusian Investigative Center

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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 have received the Hans 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)

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

Antifake / Factcheck 18 February 2022

Other fakes of week:

Audonin described the Belarusian passport’s standing as “extremely high.” However, it offers fewer visa-free destinations than those of neighboring countries

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

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

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

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

Other publications

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

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