BelTA

BelTA is listed as Center on Crosswire: news agencies supply reporting to outlets across the whole spectrum, which rewards a deliberately neutral news style. In Belarus, SB. Belarus Segodnya is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open BelTA beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Read BelTA beside another title from Belarus and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Agency copy is written to be resold to outlets across the spectrum, so BelTA is a useful baseline: compare its plain account of an event with how partisan titles in Belarus headline the same wire story, and the framing each adds becomes visible by subtraction. Because BelTA is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Belarus either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

BelTA is one of 5 outlets tracked in Belarus and the only news agency tracked there. By outlets tracked, Belarus ranks 37th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 6 of the 51 news agencies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to BelTA outside Belarus, starting with Central and Eastern Europe, are UNIAN (Ukraine), TASS (Russia) and ANSA (Italy). Opening one of them beside BelTA is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.