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)
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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
In the US during the McCarthy era, more people were killed than during the Stalinist repressions in the USSR. This claim was made by political scientist Piotr Petrovsky and media personality Grigory Azaryonok on a Belarussian state-run media outlet.
Maria Butina, the Russian woman who was accused in 2018 of conspiracy and acting as a foreign agent in the United States on behalf of Russia, claims that Americans are profiting off her image in a video game.
According to a Belarusian MP, Reserve Colonel Anatoly Bulavko, the missile that hit the Kyiv Clinic for the protection of motherhood and childhood "Okhmatdyt" was not a Russian one.