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
"Batska (Father - Lukashenka’s nickname) is better than Maidan," - not only the TG-channel "Your Plums" thinks so, but also, according to this resource, Ukrainians who took part in the "Radio Liberty" survey
In the last issue of "Sly news" of the outgoing 2021, we decided to collect the most outstanding fakes from Alyaksandar Lukashenka and at the beginning of this "hit parade" is, of course, the lie that no-one beat the demonstrators in the temporary detention centre Okrestina in Minsk in August 2020
The "Yellow Plums" telegram channel decided to teach members of the European Parliament the Russian language. The thing is that the European Parliament recently awarded the Sakharov Prize to Alexey Navalny
The telegram channel "Yellow Plums" decided to promote the state-managed Belarusian Union of Journalists, saying that this community adheres to the main rule: write and speak beautifully
Migrants who go to the European Union via Belarus have become the main topic of news on state television. All the Belarusian media talk about their lives, and it already resembles some kind of reality show: migrants woke up, migrants ate, migrants went to rest, migrants were sold overpriced shawarma
Падобна на тое, што беларускія СМІ ніколі не перастануць казаць пра тое, што шлях у барацьбе з COVID-19, які абрала Беларусь, самы правільны, і іншыя краіны цяпер ідуць...