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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 16 April "Celebrating Victory Day not only in Minsk." Lukashenko talks up a tradition that doesn't exist

He claims to celebrates May 9 not only in Minsk but also in Moscow.

Fakes of the week

15 April Bulavko: Ukraine is being flooded with weapons, but civilians aren’t getting any financial aid. We looked into what he got wrong

14 April Shkvarka News tried to back up a fake Ukrainian court ruling with a forged document

11 April Education minister claims fewer Belarusians are going abroad to study. We checked if the trend has reversed indeed

10 April Yelfimov argued that neither adopted innovations from the West. Here’s what we found

09 April Did the BPF and Pazniak really accept the results of the vote on integration with Russia? WTF goes back to the sources

Go to the Catalogue of Fakes

Antifake / Factcheck of previous weeks

Antifake / Factcheck USSR invasion of Afghanistan was more civilized than the U.S. one. Party Belaya Rus head’s statement fact-checked

The U.S. army invaded Afghanistan in 2001, after the September 11 attacks.

20 March 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck U.S. advertising calls to stop funding Ukraine, does it? WTF team discovered original video

Weekly Top Fake journalists found the original video. It was published on YouTube in May 2021.

19 March 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck ISS will make peace between Americans and both Belarusians and Russians. Political scientist Lazutkin's claim fact-checked

Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya has been readied for the space flight, the head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, said.

18 March 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fact check: Editor-in-chief of “Belarus Segodnya” claims that Russia did give the nuclear baton to Belarus

Precedents for the deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of other countries are not something new.

15 March 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Did the court declare the Berlin elections undemocratic and rigged? Minister of Information of the Republic of Belarus statement fact-checked

There were many problems during the voting process, such as shortages of ballots, long lines at many polling stations and polling stations were temporarily closed or remain open longer than required.

14 March 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fact check: Columnist Gorin's false claim that Poland to buy weapons for €137 million allocated by the EU

In 2021, Brussels has frozen EU funds for Warsaw, mentioned above by Gorin, in connection with judicial reform.

13 March 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Fact check: ONT falsely reported that Polish farmers have crashed cars from batch of military vehicles for Ukraine

ONT employees referred to the leading propagandist of Russian TV, Olga Skabeeva as a source of information.

12 March 2024 Read Article

Antifake / Factcheck Not to vote — get punished. Debunking Belarus's Minister of Information claim about the elections in Germany

WTF journalists questioned the federal election commissioner whether German voters are marked in their passports and what awaits Germans who do not vote.

11 March 2024 Read Article