Belsat covers Belarus like a correspondent who cannot go home, reporting from Warsaw on a country it watches around the clock. The paradox is built in: a Polish public broadcaster runs what press freedom groups call the only major independent video newsroom for Belarusians, while a Minsk court treats its very logo as extremist material. The English edition works like a briefing room, with Lukashenka, the KGB, exile politicians and Belarusians abroad returning headline after headline.

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Origin:: Poland
Region:: Russia
Founded:: 2007 (began broadcasting 10 December 2007)
Ownership:: Telewizja Polska (TVP), Poland's public broadcaster; managed within TVP's Overseas Media Centre since November 2024
Funding:: Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs grant via TVP (PLN 59 million for 2025; PLN 40 million in 2024)
Focus Areas:: Belarus politics and the Lukashenka government, repression and political prisoners, Belarusians abroad and the exile opposition, Belarus-Russia relations, the war in Ukraine
Language:: English (this edition); the channel broadcasts mainly in Belarusian, with Russian and Ukrainian services

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