Abkhazian Network News Agency


Abkhazian Network News Agency is an Abkhazian news agency.

History

ANNA was officially registered as mass media in the Republic of Abkhazia on 18 July 2011. 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 :ru:Российский государственный торгово-экономический университет|Russian State University of Trade and Economics.
ANNA films embedded with the Syrian Arab Army in their operations against rebels. It has been known for publishing footage recorded directly from Syrian Army tanks. According to The Moscow Times, it has a 'forceful pro-Assad slant.' 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.
In April 2016, the ANNA website was defaced by the group of Ukrainian hackers, Falcon Flame & Trinity.
In May 2020, ANNA News was banned from YouTube for violating terms of service.

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