Last fakes of the week
15 April 2025
Bulavko: Ukraine is being flooded with weapons, but civilians aren’t getting any financial aid. We looked into what he got wrong
Ukraine’s allies are only funding the country’s military, while offering little support to its civilian population, said Anatoliy Bulavko, a member of the standing commission on national security in Belarus’s House of Representatives. The Weekly Top Fake team fact-checked his claim.
misrepresentation, Ukraine, Europe, USA, Belarus Today, Anatoly Bulavko, economy, war.
14 April 2025
Shkvarka News tried to back up a fake Ukrainian court ruling with a forged document
According to the authors of the Telegram channel Shkvarka News, the Brovary District Court in the Kyiv region ordered the mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier to erase the inscription. As proof, they published what they claim is the official court ruling. The document raised suspicion with the Weekly Top Fake team.
misrepresentation, Ukraine, Telegram channel Shkvarka News, war.
11 April 2025
Education minister claims fewer Belarusians are going abroad to study. We checked if the trend has reversed indeed
The trend in recent years shows fewer Belarusians are enrolling in foreign universities, Education Minister Andrei Ivanets said. The Weekly Top Fake team set out to verify these claims.
misrepresentation, Belarus, Russia, European Union, Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Czech Republic, CTV, Andrei Ivanets, education, migration.
10 April 2025
Yelfimov argued that neither adopted innovations from the West. Here’s what we found
Russia and Belarus don’t need foreign technology — a claim backed by the experience of the Russian Empire and the USSR, according to political analyst Vadim Yelfimov. But the Weekly Top Fake team found several academic studies that tell a different story.
misrepresentation, Belarus, Russia, USSR, USA, European Union, Radio Minsk, Information agency Minsk-news, Vadzim Yalfimau, history, high tech.
09 April 2025
Did the BPF and Pazniak really accept the results of the vote on integration with Russia? WTF goes back to the sources
Political analyst Andrei Lazutkin claimed that even the Belarusian Popular Front, including its leader Zianon Pazniak, acknowledged the legitimacy of the 1995 referendum on economic integration between Belarus and Russia. The Weekly Top Fake team found out what the opposition leader actually said on the matter.
misrepresentation, Belarus, CTV, Andrey Lazutkin, politics, history.
