Abkhazian Network News Agency
Abkhazian Network News Agency (also Analytical Network News Agency, more commonly known as ANNA News) is an Abkhazian news agency.
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Industry | News media |
Founded | 18 July 2011 |
Founder | Marat Musin |
Headquarters | Moscow, Russia (until 2017 in the Republic of Abkhazia) |
Number of employees | 50[1] |
Website | anna-news.info |
History
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ANNA was officially registered as mass media in the Republic of Abkhazia on 18 July 2011.[2] It was founded, and was led until his death in 2018 by Marat Musin, a specialist in financial intelligence who lectured at Moscow State University and taught at the Russian State University of Trade and Economics.[1]
ANNA films embedded with the Syrian Arab Army in their operations against rebels.[3] It has been known for publishing footage recorded directly from Syrian Army tanks.[4] According to The Moscow Times, it has a 'forceful pro-Assad slant.'[1] In January 2013, a Russian judge from Belgorod, Sergey Aleksandrovich Berezhnoy, a volunteer writer to ANNA, was shot in the face and arm while accompanying an ANNA crew as it reported on a unit of the Syrian Army fighting rebel forces in the Damascus suburb of Darayya.[5]
In April 2016, the ANNA website was defaced by the group of Ukrainian hackers, Falcon Flame & Trinity.[6]
In May 2020, ANNA News was banned from YouTube for violating terms of service.[7]
Gallery
- Image of Alexander Zakharchenko by newsanna in 2014
See also
References
- 'Crazy Abkhaz' Journalists Cover Syria Frontline
- О проекте Archived 25 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- Alleged Syrian Tank Footage Offers Glimpse Into Devastation In Darayya (VIDEO), The Huffington Post (8 March 2013).
- Robert Mackey (8 March 2013). "Russians Bring Dashcam War Reporting to Syria". The New York Times.
- Robert Mackey & Ellen Barry, Vacation on Syria’s Front Lines Goes Wrong for Russian Judge, New York Times (31 January 2013).
- Ukrainian hackers Falcon Flame Trinity defaced