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Belarusian journalistic project against fake news and manipulations of officials and media. You can read about our team, principles and methodology via this link
Until 2021, the income tax rate for HTP IT workers was 9% of their salary, whereas teachers and milling machine operators paid a rate of 13%.
Meanwhile, Eurostat's statistics for the same period show that Romania and Belgium had the highest inflation rates in the EU — 5.3% and 5.4%, respectively.
Over the past 18 years, the square footage built for those in need has diminished by around 30%.
This story differs from the one that Lukashenko’s spokesperson, Natalya Eismont, published on August 23, 2020, on the Telegram channel “Pul Pervogo”.
Orthodox Christians were counted at 16% in Estonia.
Our readers may recall the WTF's earlier piece on the availability of healthy, affordable food in Belarus and the region.
The Weekly Top Fake team compared Germany's energy 2023 balance with the 2021 report when Russia had still been supplying gas there.
The WTF team has already debunked a similar fake about the French President.
Konstantin Prydybaylo, a correspondent for “Russia Today”, the pro-government media outlet, called out the Ukrainian TV channel TSN, for broadcasting a fake news segment on August 14, 2024.
Journalists from Weekly Top Fake investigated and found out that Iraq’s oil is not controlled by the US, but rather by a group of countries, including Russia.
Sergei Klishevich spoke about Lithuania's expenses for Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
Both Belarusian pro-government media personality Grigory Azarenok and political scientist Pyotr Petrovsky falsely claimed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza was a family member of Sergei Kara-Murza, a chemical scientist and publicist of the USSR and Russia.
