What Others Are Writing About Belarus – 28 October 2026

In Brief

• A man has been arrested in Belarus for defrauding a Russian woman of 2.3 million rubles, threatening her with violence if she demanded her money back, suggesting he may have been deceiving various women for 20 years.
• A population of a rare bird species – the Russian desman, previously considered extinct in Belarus, has been discovered, which has been recognized as an important event for science.
• Research conducted by the 'Nature and People' foundation in the valleys of the Szh and Ptich rivers confirmed the presence of a stable group of desmans, which is a positive sign for biodiversity conservation.

Russian Press

According to Wiesti.ru (propaganda media), a man has been arrested in Belarus for defrauding a Russian woman of 2.3 million rubles. The man, posing as an entrepreneur, allegedly extorted a large sum of money from the woman and then threatened her with violence when she demanded a refund. Investigators suspect that he may have lived off many women for 20 years, pretending to be different identities. (В Белоруссии задержали мужчину, который развел россиянку на 2,3 миллиона рублей – Wiesti.ru (media propagandowe))

Russian Lenta.ru (propaganda media) reports that a population of a rare species – the Russian desman, which was previously considered extinct in the country, has been discovered in Belarus. Researchers from the "Nature and People" foundation conducted studies in the valleys of the Szh and Ptich rivers, where they found a stable group of these animals, which has been recognized as an important event for science. In recent years, there has been no evidence of the presence of desmans in Belarus, leading to their removal from the national Red Book. (В одной стране внезапно нашли русскую выхухоль – Lenta.ru (media propagandowe))

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