Belarusian propaganda spans entire continents
Buro examined Belteleradiocompany’s tender documentation and discovered that the state media holding spends millions of Belarusian rubles from the public purse each year to disseminate propaganda narratives across several continents.
According to the signed contracts, Belteleradiocompany has been buying telecommunication services for the satellite distribution of the TV programme Belarus 24 and the radio programme Belarus since 2022. Suppliers include Russia’s Ostankino Telecom and Sputnikovoe Televidenie, Azercosmos Space Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and Belarus’s Zavod Tochnoy Elektromekhaniki (Precision Electromechanics Plant).
For instance, in 2025, the broadcaster has already paid for content broadcasting in the following regions:
- Across the entire Russian Federation;
- In Central Asia (complete coverage) and Western Asia, with mandatory full coverage in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia;
- In Western Europe (complete coverage), as well as Eastern, Northern, and Southern Europe, with mandatory full coverage in the UK, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Serbia respectively;
- Throughout South America and the Caribbean (complete coverage);
- In North and West Africa (complete coverage) and in East and Southern Africa, with mandatory full or partial coverage in Zimbabwe.
According to its website, Belarus 24 broadcasts to more than 170 countries on all continents and is accessible from anywhere in the world.
Belteleradiocompany’s technical specifications require the satellite to only be operated by suppliers from countries not included on the list of those “unfriendly” towards Belarus. Nevertheless, watching Belarus 24 in these “unfriendly” countries is then “mandatory”, which is just another example of the double standards in place.
In 2025, the pro-regime media group had signed contracts worth more than 2 million Belarusian rubles (approximately 550,000 euros). Broadcasting on Russian territory is the most expensive option, costing just over 700,000 rubles. The combined cost of covering Europe and Asia is almost 780,000 rubles. It costs nearly 565,000 budgetary rubles to produce Belarusian propaganda content for viewers in South America, the Caribbean and Africa. And Belarusian people had to pay for these broadcasts!
The state procurement website states that Belteleradiocompany has already spent almost 8 million Belarusian rubles (approximately 2.5 million euros) from the state budget on transnational broadcasting from 2022 to 2025.
