BIC is a member of the OCCRP (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project)
We are also members of GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network)
Belarusian journalistic project against fake news and manipulations of officials and media. You can read about our team, principles and methodology via this link
Unemployment in Poland increased by just 0.1 percentage point over the past year and remains among the lowest in the European Union at 2.9%.
The BIC team fact-checked the claim.
The TV host was referencing the Stavka (Headquarters) of the Main Command of the Armed Forces of the USSR.
In total, the “dirty” list worldwide includes 120 megacities, with no Belarusian cities represented.
ZhS Premium and Yuri Podolyaka claimed that a mother and daughter fleeing floods in Poland were denied a hotel room because it was fully booked by Ukrainians. We spoke with the woman.
A Belarus 1 host claimed that highly skilled professionals are leaving Germany for Australia, Japan and the U.S. The WTF team looked into the actual numbers.
WTF team reviewed the British business paper’s story and found that Baltnews got it wrong.
In Belarus, the average pension is about 800 rubles, or roughly €220—three and a half times less than in Estonia.
Polish analyst Tomasz Gryguć claimed that Poles support Lukashenko. The WTF team investigated how far his statements are from reality.
In fact, the opposite is true in Lithuania: there are too many arrivals.
Some categories are entitled to medicines on prescription with a 90% discount.
We found a photo of two men with tattoos on the Instagram of one of them. He published it before the war, in August 2020.
