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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 While Belarus’s GDP is falling, state TV reports stable growth: Aliaksei Audonin manipulates the figures

We compared the claims of a successful development model with World Bank data and statistics.

05 March 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck On CTV, the price rise in Poland was described as “rapid”, although food prices in Belarus have risen by a greater amount over the past two years

The presenter referred to the cost of the basic food basket. Over the past two years, the price of the Polish basket has risen by 7%, while the price of the Belarusian basket has risen by around 15%.

04 March 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “Trans women can now get pregnant, too.” Radio host Uladzimir Kazakou claimed to find something in the European Parliament resolution that, in fact, is not there

MEPs discussed ways to improve access to protection for survivors of violence.

02 March 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Do Ukrainians prefer the Russian language? Poll results vs. commentator Mukavozchyk’s opinion

We found out how many people in Ukraine’s surveyed population still speak Russian.

28 February 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Commentator Ihar Tur linked the increase in coffee prices to the sanctions imposed on Belaruskali. We found errors in his reasoning

Market dynamics show a different sequence of events.

27 February 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Shpakouski, a Belarusian MP, said that Europe is driving Chinese cars. We checked the EU’s sales statistics

Official data show that Chinese-made cars rank between 16th and 22nd place in sales.

26 February 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “Going up in the rankings all the time.” The Belarusian radio station’s flattering reporting on sustainable development in Belarus was misleading

In fact, the statistics show fluctuations rather than a continuous rise.

25 February 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “They have no intention of seeking employment or obtaining legal status.” The Belarusian radio station’s theory about migrants in the EU did not pass our fact-checking

A studio guest shared data that contradicts EU laws and statistics.

24 February 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Has Belarus’s economy “taken off”? Economist Aliaksei Audonin incorrectly answered his own question about the success of countries that were formerly part of the USSR

The CTV guest said that, in the post-Soviet region, Belarus has the best export, gold and foreign exchange reserves, and investment-attractiveness indicators.

24 February 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck On Belarusian Radio, the introduction of authorisation to enter the EU was presented as the reinstatement of visas for Ukrainians

This new procedure will apply to all citizens of countries that have signed a visa-free travel agreement with the EU, including Ukraine.

23 February 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck The Belarus 4 TV channel claimed that the sanctions against Belarus are causing Poles to freeze to death. However, this statement is false

The Nashe Vremya show concluded that the reason for this was the refusal to buy Belarusian pellets.

19 February 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Without Belarus and Russia, the Olympics aren’t the same anymore? Radio-Minsk underestimated the popularity of the 2026 Winter Games

A show guest claimed that the audience for the Olympics is declining. We compared attendance and online viewership of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games with those of previous competitions.

18 February 2026 Read Article

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