Pozirk

Pozirk (/pózirk/, Belarusian: Позірк) is a Belarusian independent news agency reporting in Russian, Belarusian and English, founded by former employees of BelaPAN and its online newspaper Naviny.by.

History
On October 16, 2023, Pozirk launched the website Pozirk.online. However, on December 5 of the same year, the Central District Court in Minsk declared the website "extremist". Since February 2024, users in Belarus can only access it through VPN services.

BelaPAN journalists and editors were forced to flee Belarus as the government banned the country's oldest independent news agency in 2021.

Name
"Pozirk" means "look", "glance" or "gaze" in Belarusian.