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 the Belarusian state television channel First Informational said they spent several years working with Alina Rudnitskaya, an editor at Current Time — the Russian-language TV and digital network run by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in cooperation with Voice of America — while posing as freelancers.