The team of the former editorial staff of TUT.BY launches a new media Zerkalo.io

After the destruc­tion of the largest news por­tal in Belarus TUT.BY (*Аccord­ing to Yandex.Metrica, an aver­age 1.8 mil­lion unique vis­i­tors came to TUT.BY in a week­day, and more than 3.3 mil­lion per month), most of the employ­ees had to leave the com­pa­ny, some of them had to leave the coun­try. Soon after the crim­i­nal case, a process to declare the TUT.BY mate­ri­als as extrem­ist mate­ri­als began. A small team of the for­mer edi­to­r­i­al office decid­ed to launch an inde­pen­dent media that will be able to ful­ly cov­er the sit­u­a­tion in Belarus and the world. The web­site was named Zerkalo.io. This name is a ref­er­ence to a mir­ror of TUT.BY that has not yet been launched, as well as a new oppor­tu­ni­ty for the edi­to­r­i­al office to dis­play the real facts of the country’s life («zerka­lo» means «mir­ror» in Russ­ian).

The new resource has a struc­ture dif­fer­ent from TUT.BY. The por­tal has only five sec­tions: Pol­i­tics and Finance, Life, In the World, Inci­dents, and The Base­ment. The edi­to­r­i­al pol­i­cy is max­i­mal­ly focused on the social and polit­i­cal life of Belarus.

If the por­tal is blocked on the ter­ri­to­ry of Belarus, access to Zerkalo.io will be pos­si­ble through a VPN. Out­side Belarus, the address opens with­out addi­tion­al set­tings and ser­vices.

You can also con­tin­ue read­ing the news on social media and Telegram. Thanks to agree­ments with the own­ers of TUT BY MEDIA LLC, Zerkalo.io obtained the right to use TUT.BY accounts on social media. There­fore, soon the logo and the name of the accounts will be changed, and the high stan­dards of jour­nal­ism will be pre­served.