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Publication date: 24 August 2026 Claim A Belarus-RTR broadcast claimed that Latvia has about 300,000 government officials, meaning that roughly one in six residents is allegedly an official, while only about 500,000 working people support the country's economy. Verdict Misleading. The figure of about 300,000 does not count government officials. It describes the much broader public sector, which includes employees of state and municipal institutions, schools, hospitals, the po

Publication date: 20 August 2026 Claim Polish businesses are allegedly heading rapidly towards bankruptcy, and empty corridors in the Renoma shopping centre in Wrocław show that an economic crisis has already emptied the shops. Verdict Misleading. The footage is authentic, but it was recorded at about 9:00 p.m., when most Renoma shops close. The centre's official schedule lists shopping and service hours from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. from Monday to Saturday. An empty corridor a

Publication date: 17 August 2026 Claim Western scientists allegedly proposed destroying society and forcibly reducing the world's population to preserve natural resources. Verdict Misleading. The paper does advocate gradually slowing and reversing population growth to about 4 billion people or fewer by 2200. But its authors do not propose killing people or forcibly removing the existing population. Their route involves lower fertility, voluntary family planning, access to con

Publication date: 13 August 2026 Claim Belarus allegedly has the cleanest air, water and food in the world. Verdict False. International indexes show that Belarus performs well in some environmental areas, but it is not ranked first for either air quality or drinking water. The claim about the "cleanest food" also cannot be derived from a global food security index. In brief • In the 2024 Environmental Performance Index, Belarus ranked 32nd among 180 countries overall. • Bela

Publication date: 10 August 2026 Claim State media claimed that crop yields in Belarus had risen almost 1.8-fold in 2026 and that the country was nearly level with Lithuania in wheat yields. Verdict False and misleading. Operational data from the Belarusian Agriculture Ministry showed an increase of several centners per hectare, not a 1.8-fold rise. The Lithuania comparison also cannot be established from the cited indicator: the Belarusian figure covered grains and pulses du

Publication date: 6 August 2026 Claim Belarusian pensioners can allegedly travel around the world on their pension just as pensioners in European countries do. Verdict Unsupported and misleading. An average pension does not show how many pensioners can pay for international travel. Available data about their actual leisure activities also do not support a picture of widespread travel: 3.3% of retirement-age respondents in a 2023 survey by the Institute of Sociology of the Nat

Publication date: 3 August 2026 Claim A guest on the First National Channel of Belarusian Radio claimed that boilers and nuclear energy equipment account for about 5% of Lithuanian exports, supposedly showing that Lithuania still earns money by selling equipment from the closed Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. Verdict False. The figure of about 5% refers to the broad product group 84, which includes computers, servers, air conditioners, refrigerators, engines, pumps, cranes, agr

Publication date: 30 July 2026 Claim Figures for foreign entries and Belarus's position in an international table have been presented in the Belarusian information space as proof that the country has become a more attractive tourist destination than Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia. Verdict Misleading. A place in a table of international arrivals is not a ranking of overall tourism attractiveness. In the table examined by the Belarusian Investigative Center, Poland ranked far ab

Publication date: 27 July 2026 Claim A presenter on Belarusian state television channel CTV claimed that Europe had classified air conditioners as luxury items because of the green agenda, leaving Europeans without affordable cooling and putting the

Publication date: 23 July 2026 Claim Belarusian political commentator Piotr Piatrouski claimed that Ukrainians had never wanted to join NATO and that the membership course was imposed on society after 2014. Verdict False / misleading. Support for NAT

Publication date: 20 July 2026 Claim A broadcast on the First National Channel of Belarusian Radio claimed that the Baltic states lost their industries, railways and transport systems after joining the European Union. The formula was sweeping: "no ra

Publication date: 16 July 2026 Claim Belarusian state television channel STV reported that significantly more people in Lithuania support easing or fully removing sanctions on Belarus than maintaining or tightening the current policy. Verdict Mislead

Publication date: 2026-07-13 Claim Videos designed to look like reports by established media circulated on social platforms and anonymous Telegram channels. One claimed that Poland was preparing to deport 50,000 Ukrainians because relations with Ukra

Publication date: 2026-07-09 Claim There are accounts in Latvia's Russian-speaking political TikTok space that are operated from Belarus. Some readings turn this into a broader claim: that hidden foreign control over Latvia's Russian-speaking politic

Publication date: 2026-07-06 Claim Polish-language Radio Belarus channels on TikTok, YouTube, X and Facebook were ordinary foreign media and did not create a meaningful risk for Polish elections, despite EU sanctions against the Belarusian state broa

Publication date: 2026-07-02 Claim Belarusian and pro-Kremlin framing described the balloon incidents from Belarus into Lithuania as ordinary cigarette smuggling, while portraying Lithuania's response as excessive, panicked or aimed at military escal

Publication date: 2026-06-29 Claim Social media posts and Kremlin-aligned narratives claim that Lithuania is secretly preparing a facility to import and store radioactive waste from across Europe, creating a risk of environmental disaster. Verdict Fa

Publication date: 2026-06-25 Claim A narrative in the Russian-language and Belarus-linked information space claimed that Lithuanian authorities are creating panic about threats from the east, preparing mass evacuation, and sacrificing citizens' wellb

Publication date: 2026-06-22 Claim A narrative circulated on social media claiming that Lithuania is allegedly not an independent state because its currency, migration policy, border control and security policy are connected to the EU and NATO. Verdi

Publication date: 2026-06-18 Claim Belarusian authorities have claimed that terrorist sleeper cells were uncovered in Belarus and were linked to Germany, the United States, Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania, as well as to plans for violent regime change.