Correspondent of the Russian Channel One Aleksei Kruchinin, whom the Belarusian Foreign Ministry expelled from the country, publicly responded to accusations of Belarusian television of spreading fake news.
He published his answer on Facebook, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The state Belarusian channel BT-1 showed a huge “investigation” exposing supposed “fakes” in our story about the situation with coronavirus in Belarus. The investigation lasted almost 18 and a half minutes, and this, of course, is flattering.
The ad turned out great. It was after the broadcast of BT-1 that many people went to the Channel One website, watched our story, and I received many letters of support from Belarusians,” Kruchinin wrote.
He denied all 7 “charges” brought against him by his Belarusian colleagues, citing publications in the Belarusian media and on the websites of international organizations.
“A similar story by a Belarusian correspondent of the Polish TV channel Belsat (who, by the way, works in Belarus without accreditation) for some reason did not cause such a violent reaction,” Kruchinin wrote.
At the same time, he himself discovered a fake in a revealing story on Belarusian television. It erroneously stated that in Belarus they do more tests for coronavirus than in Poland (in fact, two times less).
“Unfortunately, colleagues from BT-1, it was you who broke through the bottom. And we just honestly did our job - as always. Much more could be said about the real situation in the country, but, as they say, the air is not rubber,” Kruchnin wrote.
According to a study by the Eurasian media index CIPI for the first quarter of 2020: in the Belarusian media there are 18% more negative messages about Russia than positive ones.