One Belarusian in four has not read the Belarusian media during the last month but instead relies on Russian media, often delivered via the Internet, according to Mikhail Doroshevich, the director of the Baltic Internet Policy Initiative, on the basis of a new survey.
This group watches NTV on the Internet, goes to Russian portals like Lenta.ru and communicates with each other via Russian social media, the media expert says.
This means, he suggests, that this part of the Belarusian population already effectively lives in the Russian information space, even though their country remains independent. They simply do not follow what is going on in Belarus, except through the very distorted reporting of Russian media outlets.