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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 29 May An economist claims the U.S. manipulated statistics to unseat China as the world’s largest economy

Prof. Iryna Novikava explained how Trump had the country’s 2016 GDP recalculated.

Fakes of the week

27 May “Turned out to be a lie.” A state media expert compared the wheat harvest in Lithuania to the total grain harvest in Belarus

26 May “We should just wait and see — they will die out on their own.” Two demographic fakes by Ksenia Lebedzeva about the Baltic States

25 May “Lithuania is doing poorly.” News.by downplayed its neighbor’s investment achievements

23 May Hihin stated that one-third of Germans sympathize with Hitler. However, he mixed up the polls

22 May “Potato prices have skyrocketed eightfold.” How News.by framed the exchange market price growth as a food crisis in Europe

Go to the Catalogue of Fakes

Antifake / Factcheck of previous weeks

Antifake / Factcheck Did Poland abandon its own people? A Belarusian radio station compared the approaches of Warsaw and Minsk regarding the evacuation of their citizens from the Middle East

The hosts of Międzynarodowe Radio Białoruś accused Poland of inaction, even though thousands of Poles had already been evacuated.

23 March 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “Corporations are losing trillions.” How CTV exaggerated the impact of Tehran’s strikes on Western markets

Azaronak and Audonin discussed the progress of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.

21 March 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “Ukraine plans to slash parental leave ninefold.” News.by misrepresented the initiative for additional parental leave

The Verkhovna Rada proposed not canceling the three-year parental leave, but rather introducing another paid leave.

20 March 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Although the authorities fulfilled the plan by only one third, GDP growth over the five-year period was presented on ONT (All-National TV) as a success.

While the economies of Poland and Lithuania have grown by more than 60% over the last 15 years, Belarus’s GDP has grown by an average of just 1% per year.

19 March 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “There is no money left for basic groceries.” CTV passed off a rise in the exchange electricity price as a tariff increase in Latvia

In fact, bills have increased due to higher energy consumption during cold weather.

16 March 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “Having more than one husband is permitted.” A Belarusian radio guest twisted China’s marriage norms

...while discussing Beijing’s role in the U.S. conflict with Iran.

14 March 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Belarusian Radio fake: Ukrainians choose Belarus over “paradise life in Europe”

On the program Ekspertnyi Klub, the forecast for people leaving Ukraine was portrayed as an established fact, while arriving in Belarus was framed as resettlement.

13 March 2026 Read Article