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Antifake / Factcheck “Didn’t say no to the man”: SB. Belarus Segodnya distorted сhanges to Lithuania’s laws on child sexual abuse

The newspaper’s columnist interpreted the reforms as a softening of penalties, even though lawmakers were introducing a affirmative consent principle while maintaining the ban on sexual contact with children.

23 June 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Gold, smartphones, and sanctions: What really drives Armenia’s exports to Russia?

News.by overestimated the share of Armenian exports to the EAEU by more than twofold and failed to consider sanctions-related re-exports.

22 June 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck 150 ethnic groups and a “thriving” Polish community: How News.by exaggerated Belarus’s tolerance

The media outlet conflated the number of ethnic groups in Belarus with the number of festival participants and overlooked the fact that the Polish community has been shrinking.

21 June 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Europe without milk? Greece without food? What’s wrong with the stories on Belarusian state TV

News.by and Belarus-RTR have identified signs of a food crisis in areas where statistics suggest otherwise.

20 June 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Bandarenka, a historian, drew parallels between the mobilization in Ukraine and the USSR, but overlooked the significant number of Soviet draft dodgers

As of September 1944, the NKVD had identified almost 500,000 draft evaders and over 1.2 million deserters.

19 June 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Does the majority trust Lukashenko? How TASS and Igor Dodon inflated support for the Belarusian politician in Moldova

Those who said they had little trust in Lukashenko were also included in the positive rating.

18 June 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck CTV did not mention that one-third of the surveyed Lithuanians supported maintaining the sanctions

The number of Lithuanians who favored maintaining or tightening the sanctions was almost equal to the number who favored easing or lifting them.

17 June 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Is the Belarus tractor featured in the U.S. Book of Honor? How the MTZ-80 testing was framed as a triumph over international tractor competitors

Rather than selecting the best models, the American laboratory verified that the tractors met their specified requirements.

16 June 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “Notice how many foreign delegations were present.” Radio Minsk misidentified foreign guests as representatives from Germany and the U.S.

The German Foreign Ministry did not endorse the trip by AfD politicians, and the U.S. Secretary of State did not confirm the participation of an American delegation.

15 June 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck “Just let them stop the fighting” A guest on Radio-Minsk distorted Ukrainian sociological data

The majority of Ukrainians oppose withdrawing the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Donetsk Region in exchange for security guarantees.

13 June 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck A News.by host discussed Polish emigration but overlooked Belarusians

The percentage of Poles living abroad is comparable to the share of Belarusians who have left Belarus.

12 June 2026 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Is one in six Latvians a government official? A Belarus-RTR guest counted doctors, teachers, and the military personnel as bureaucrats

Aleksejs Rosļikovs referred to all Latvian public sector employees as government officials.

11 June 2026 Read Article