Belarus news, front pages compared

Crosswire lays Belarus' front pages next to one another so you can see which stories lead where, how headlines are framed, and what one outlet foregrounds that another leaves out. Of the 5 titles tracked here, 4 sit near the centre and 1 lean right; Crosswire currently lists no left-leaning outlet in Belarus, so for a contrasting perspective it is worth reading one of these beside a title from another country.

By kind of outlet, the 5 titles break down as 2 daily newspapers (SB. Belarus Segodnya and Nasha Niva), 1 digital-native outlet (Onliner), 1 news agency (BelTA) and 1 television news channel (Belsat). Crosswire lists no public-service broadcaster for Belarus, so the fixed point in a comparison has to be a wire service or the most widely read daily instead. The wire service tracked here is BelTA; agency copy is written to be resold across the spectrum, which makes it the plainest baseline for spotting the framing a newsroom adds on top.

Belarus sits in Central and Eastern Europe, on Crosswire's Europe hub. By outlets tracked it is 9th of the 10 countries in Central and Eastern Europe and 27th of the 45 across Europe, where the average is 5.9 outlets per country. Its neighbours in Central and Eastern Europe with hubs of their own are Poland (8), Czech Republic (6), Slovakia (6), Hungary (6), Romania (6), Bulgaria (6), Russia (6), Ukraine (5) and Moldova (5).

Leaning groupings are approximate guides drawn from widely cited media-bias assessments — see the methodology and what the labels can and can't tell you. Counts are taken from the directory as of 2026-09-04.