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Buro Media is a team of Belarusian investigative journalists. We expose those who misuse money and power to the detriment of society. We uncover and investigate schemes with signs of corruption and other breaches of the law, striving for positive change. We document cases of bribery, fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, cronyism, sanctions evasion, human rights abuses, and other crimes across various sectors – from the economy to education, from politics to healthcare.

Buro Media is a member of two of the world’s largest organisations uniting investigative journalists: the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN).

Our team has produced numerous high-profile investigations, including in collaboration with partners from different countries: Paper Trail Media (Germany), Investigace.cz (Czech Republic), Oštro (Slovenia), Re:Baltica (Latvia), Vlast (Kazakhstan), Schemes: Corruption in Detail (Ukraine), Verstka (Russia), and others. Buro Media has taken part in international investigative projects such as Dubai Unlocked and Dear Compatriots.

Our investigative journalists have won prestigious awards for independent Belarusian media – Volnaje Slova (Free Word). In 2024, three Buro Media journalists received two awards in the Investigative Journalism category.

Our investigations do not go unnoticed and have a real-world impact: European and American politicians have imposed sanctions, and businessmen have offloaded companies exposed in suspicious schemes as a result of our work.

Our team

Aliaksandr Yarashevich

yarashevich@protonmail.com

Aliaksandr joined the profession in 2010. For a while, he worked at BelaPAN, the oldest non-state media agency in Belarus. From 2021 to 2023, he was a member of the Belarusian Investigative Center team. The journalist won the 2020 Volnaje Slova award. Aliaksandr has researched the business dealings of the Bakiyev family in Belarus, the covert agreements made by Belarusian authorities in Zimbabwe and Venezuela, Lukashenka's top moneybags, and the evasion of sanctions.

Volha Ratmirava

olgaratmirova@proton.me

Volha has worked as a journalist since 2012. Until 2019, she took part in a legal programme on the Belarusian state STV channel as a journalist, presenter, author and editor. In early 2019, she started working as a reporter for Belsat's programmes, I Have the Right and Private Assets. From mid-2019, she worked as a journalist and presenter for the Belarusian Investigative Centre, featuring on Let's Figure It Out and Frankly Speaking shows. From 2021 to 2023, she led the investigations team at the Belarusian Investigative Centre. In 2023, she mentored the Belarus Beehive project. Volha is a holder of two Volnaje Slova awards. The journalist has authored several high-profile investigations into corruption in the Belarusian healthcare and education systems, as well as bribery and nepotism within the upper echelons of power in Belarus.

Aliaksei Karpeka

alekseykarpeka@proton.me

The first Belarusian journalist to be shortlisted for the European Press Prize. He began his investigative work by reporting on Viktar Sheiman's private enterprise Guardservice and the clandestine gold mining in Zimbabwe by businessmen with close ties to Lukashenka. During his investigative journalism work, Aliaksei gathered proof of Lukashenka's businessman Aliaksandr Zaitsau collaborating with Catholic priest Ihar Lashuk to bypass sanctions. He also discovered concealed property in Austria belonging to Mikalai Varabei, another businessman with pro-government leanings. It was Karpeka who revealed Aleksin's "present" of nearly a dozen cars and motorcycles to Lukashenka's security service.

Aliaksei Hulitski

ah@buromedia.io

Aliaksei has been working in independent Belarusian media since 2022. He was part of the team at the Belarusian Investigative Centre and has collaborated with KYKY.ORG and Novaya Gazeta. Baltia. In 2025, he joined Buro. He is a recipient of the Free Word prize and the Journalists for Tolerance Award.

He has produced investigations into the protection Belarusian security officials provide to drug traffickers, the informal ban on international adoption in Belarus, harassment at the European Humanities University, schemes for evading sanctions, and the assets of pro-government businessmen.

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