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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)

Belarusian Investigative Center

Investigations

The grey area trap. How people from Sheiman’s entourage first obtained and then lost real estate in Crimea

Court hearings over properties worth more than €2 million have been ongoing since 2023.

Antifake / Factcheck

Antifake / Factcheck IVF in Poland and Belarus: What is wrong with the comparison of programs made by International Radio experts

The radio broadcast stated that in Poland, government-funded IVF programs are merely a form of electoral populism.

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Antifake / Factcheck Is the EU preparing to introduce food ration cards? How Belarusian TV distorted Christine Lagarde’s words

The ECB chief’s remarks addressed potential challenges related to fuel, raw materials, and fertilizers, not the issue of EU food shortages.

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Economy with Chaly

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07 May07 May 2026

Our scaled-down response to the Chinese miracle

Lukashenko inspected a “miracle” tractor and also summed up the results of the “One District – One Project” initiative.

30 April30 April 2026

Lukashenko: “Maybe We’ll Get Rich”

Lukashenko reflected nostalgically on DOSAAF, agricultural machinery, and also summed up the results of the Polesia experiment.

23 April23 April 2026

Lukashenko plans to feed fish and visit a museum

“A guided tour is being arranged for the old man”

News with Chaly

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27 February27 February 2026

Lukashenko Inspects Security Forces

We regret to inform you that this is the final edition of “News” in its current format.

20 February20 February 2026

Lukashenko: “No One Will Be Allowed to Tear Us Away from Russia”

Alexander Lukashenko has prepared advice for Donald Trump.

13 February13 February 2026

Lukashenko Will Not Attend the Peace Board

We examine the leading theories behind why Alexander Lukashenko did not make time to travel to Washington.

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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Investigations

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From Belarus with war: In the two years since the start of the full-scale invasion, Belarusian companies have doubled their supplies to Russian arms manufacturers

The BIC analyzed data on supplies from 58 Belarusian enterprises to 41 Russian military-industrial complex plants

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Investigations

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Top 5 Belarusian private companies supplying equipment and spare parts to Russia’s defense industry

The group includes developers of UAVs with companies based in the US and EU, companies that modernize military equipment, and a family-owned enterprise.

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“Operates during wartime.” A British company’s Belarusian subsidiary supplies parts to Russian military plants

Both entities are owned by a businessman from Belarus.

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“Land for their own people.” How much the Belarusian budget missed out on from the construction of a complex in central Minsk

...and how it is connected to Aleksandr Lukashenko’s personal tennis coach.

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News

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11/05

Lukashenko’s “wallet” transferred money through a New Zealand banking system, which made it difficult to trace

07/04

"I'm always doing fine": A Less Than Candid Conversation With Alexander Shackutin

18/02

Ukraine could have imposed sanctions against Lukashenko earlier, but the head of the Presidential Office was against it, a BIC source says

14/01

“They’re trying to get you to hand over information”. Ukrainian draft evaders are being interrogated in Belarus

30/10

Stop Nitrogen: BIC investigations have led to halting the smuggling of Belarusian fertilisers into the European Union

10/09

Belarusian Investigative Centre wins a prestigious Free Media Award

Top fakes of the week 11 May “Ursula von der Leyen must have flinched.” The Brest TV channel presented an old interview with Péter Magyar as a new political sensation

Host Ala Hryharchuk said that Hungary’s new prime minister recently offered Viktor Orbán the position of European Commission president.

Fakes of the week

08 May A guest on the program Azaryonok. Napryamuyu supported Lukashenko’s claim about Belarusian democracy by presenting fake data

06 May “People have nothing to live on!” Political analyst Dzermant exaggerated unemployment in the EU by several times

04 May To prove that Poland would “strike” Lithuania, expert Tishchenko exaggerated the losses from a century-old war by a thousandfold

01 May Has Lithuania’s logistics business come to an end? A radio broadcast intended for a Polish audience exaggerated the consequences of the conflict at the Belarusian border

30 April “They spend 58% on food and the rest on utilities.” The First Information Channel exaggerated the expenses of Latvian residents by four times

Belarusian Interactive Catalogue of Fakes

This is a tool that appeared as a result of the work of our Anti-Fake Project. In it you can see more than 800 examples of fakes collected by us since 2021, which were either distributed in Belarusian media or related to Belarus.