$7m+ allocated to keep Polish extremist channel for over 10 years

More than $7m has been allocated to keep the Polish extremist channel for over 10 years - as stated in the Iznanka project on the Belarus 1 TV channel, BelTA reports

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The Iznanka [Underside] project said that, according to open sources, the content of the TV channel cost more than 300 million Zlotys (over $7m) from 2009 to 2019. Throughout the following years, the Polish society calls for tens of millions spent on the maintenance of Belsat staff to be transferred to support and treat Polish children with oncology, Belarus 1 TV channel noted. 

“Andrzej Duda does not hear, so the journalists from the extremist editorial who are loyal to him and the Law and Justice (PiS) Party rent flats in Warsaw for $600 and open their own shops and businesses in the heart of the Polish capital. Belsat, being an independent channel, is independent from Belarus as well. There are no journalists from Belsat here, it is independent of the country's information, of the Belarusians’ opinions, of freedom of speech as well as of the free journalism itself, because it is subordinate to the Polish government and its aggressive PiS Party foreign policy,” the channel emphasised. 

According to Andrei Starikov, a political scientist and Head of the Baltnews Agency, Belsat has been implementing the Polish line in the Belarusian direction since 2007. “The Belsat policy as a TV channel correlated with the policy of the Polish state. The more Polish-Belarusian relations degraded due to Poland's fault, the more and more aggressively Poland violated all the norms and rules of neighbourly mutual existence, the more aggressive and anti-Belarusian the Belsat activities became,” Andrei Starikov stressed.