# Belarusian state TV says it planted ‘freelancers’ inside Current Time and handed over names of more than 70 journalists

https://mins.news/en/item/35979

- Meduza, 2026-08-28 17:29 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/28/belarusian-state-tv-says-it-planted-freelancers-inside-current-time-and-handed-over-the-names-of-more-than-70-journalists-to-their-home-countries-mostly-russia-names-that-were-already-public

> Employees of Belarusian state channel First Informational said they spent years posing as freelancers while working with Current Time editor Alina Rudnitskaya. The channel claimed the operation obtained the names of more than 70 staff members and passed them to the countries of their citizenship, mainly Russia.