By Polina Ivancha: The satellite TV channel Belarus 24 was established on the initiative of the President 10 years ago. It was designed as an image-building channel aimed at presenting objective information about Belarus to multimillion audiences around the world. Over the last 3 months of 2014, the channel’s viewership in Russia has exceeded 20 million people.
On 1 February 1, 2005 the journalists of the then Belarus TV first went on the air. On that day, Belarus’ news was broadcast to the entire post-Soviet space, Poland and Australia. By the end of the year, the channel’s potential audience around the world reached 5 million viewers. Today, after 10 years, Belarus 24 is viewed by at least 270 million people on four continents.
Belarus 24 keeps springing surprises every year. In particular, next week will see the debut of the Typical Day programme. On Monday Belarus…
