ANNA News

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ANNA News
IndustryNews media
Founded18 July 2011; 10 years ago (2011-07-18)
FounderMarat Musin
HeadquartersMoscow, Russia
(until 2017 Abkhazia)
Number of employees
As of 2013: 50[1]
Websiteanna-news.info

ANNA News (Analytical Network News Agency) is a Russian pro-government[2] news agency.[3][4] Its name ANNA stands for Abkhazian Network News Agency, but after the head office moved to Moscow, when registering in Roskomnadzor on September 22, 2017,[5] the word “Abkhazian” was changed to “Analytical”. The agency is engaged in influence operations and considered a propaganda tool.[6][7][8]

Anchor Helen Krasovskaya with latest news of Novorossiya, 9 August 2014 (at background a title "South-Eastern Front")

ANNA was officially registered as mass media in Abkhazia on 18 July 2011.[9] It was founded and managed by Marat Musin until his death in May 2018.[10] Musin was a specialist in financial intelligence who worked at Moscow State University and at the  [Wikidata].[1]

ANNA films embedded with the Syrian Arab Army in their operations against rebels.[11] It has been known for publishing footage recorded directly from Syrian Army tanks.[12] According to The Moscow Times, it has a 'forceful pro-Assad slant.'[1] In January 2013, a Russian judge and a former military intelligence officer Sergey Berezhnoy survived being shot while accompanying ANNA crew in the Damascus suburb of Darayya, Syria.[13] It is unclear what he was doing there during Syrian civil war.[14]

In June 2014, ANNA News falsely claimed that political advisor Jen Psaki had been fired from the US State Department.[15]

ANNA News journalist Oleg Blokhin created staged photos to substantiate the existence of a fake private military company Turan.[16][17][18] After it was discovered that the photos were fake, ANNA removed Blokhin materials from its website.[17][19]

In May 2020, ANNA News has been banned from YouTube for violating terms of service.[2][20][21] Employees of ANNA also worked for Russian propaganda websites news-front.info and southfront.org.[22][23]

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Nechepurenko, Ivan (12 March 2013). "'Crazy Abkhaz' Journalists Cover Syria Frontline". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Kuznets, Dmitry; Kolomychenko, Maria; Kovalev, Alexey (20 November 2020). "To block or not to block: Will Roskomnadzor actually restrict access to major sites like YouTube for 'censoring' Russian content?". Meduza. Translated by Eilish Hart. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  3. ^ Romashenko, Sergey (28 November 2020). "Роскомнадзор призвал создать видеохостинги для российских СМИ" [Roskomnadzor urged to create video hosting for Russian media]. Deutsche Welle (in Russian). Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Перечень наименований зарегистрированных СМИ" [List of names of registered media]. rkn.gov.ru (in Russian). Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  5. ^ "anna-news.info". ANNA News (in Russian). Archived from the original on 29 November 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2021.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ^ Allen, T.S.; Moore, A.J. (2018). "Victory without Casualties: Russia's Information Operations" (PDF). Parameters 48. 1: 67.
  7. ^ Andresen, Pascal (2015). "Kapitel 8 Im Kampf unterm Kreuz – Zur Rolle und Bedeutung christlicher Milizen im Syrienkonflikt" [Chapter 8 In the fight under the cross - On the role and importance of Christian militias in the Syrian conflict]. Jahrbuch Terrorismus (in German). Verlag Barbara Budrich. 7: 142. ISSN 2512-6040. JSTOR 24916731 – via JSTOR.
  8. ^ Hunin, V. Ye. (2020). "Problems of ensuring the security of competitive intelligence activities in the context of an aggravation of information and psychological confrontation". Political Life (in Ukrainian). Donetsk National University (3): 78–85. doi:10.31558/2519-2949.2020.3.10. eISSN 2519-2957. ISSN 2519-2949.
  9. ^ О проекте Archived 25 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Eremenko, Polina (31 January 2019). "Он не хотел приспосабливаться: Полина Еременко — об операторе Кирилле Радченко, убитом в ЦАР" [He did not want to adapt: Polina Eremenko — about the operator Kirill Radchenko, who was killed in the CAR]. Meduza (in Russian). Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  11. ^ Alleged Syrian Tank Footage Offers Glimpse Into Devastation In Darayya (VIDEO), The Huffington Post (8 March 2013).
  12. ^ Robert Mackey (8 March 2013). "Russians Bring Dashcam War Reporting to Syria". The New York Times.
  13. ^ Kelley, Michael B. (1 February 2013). "Russian Judge Goes On Vacation To Syria's Front Lines, Gets Shot In The Face". Business Insider. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  14. ^ Mackey, Robert; Barry, Ellen (31 January 2013). "Vacation on Syria's Front Lines Goes Wrong for Russian Judge". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  15. ^ Mackey, Robert (7 June 2014). "Russian State Media Focuses Attacks on Kerry's Spokeswoman". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  16. ^ Marten, Kimberly (4 May 2019). "Russia's use of semi-state security forces: the case of the Wagner Group". Post-Soviet Affairs. 35 (3): 181–204. doi:10.1080/1060586X.2019.1591142. ISSN 1060-586X.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b "Частную компанию "Туран", воюющую в Сирии, выдумал журналист: расследование Conflict Intelligence Team" [The private company "Turan", fighting in Syria, was made up by a journalist: an investigation by the Conflict Intelligence Team]. Meduza (in Russian). 9 January 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  18. ^ Krutov, Mark (9 January 2018). "Россиянин в Сирии. Сам себе ЧВК" [Russian in Syria. Own PMC]. ru.krymr.com (in Russian). Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  19. ^ "ANNA News сейчас зачем-то удаляют со своего сайта все материалы, где упоминается Олег Блохин" [For some reason, ANNA News is now deleting from their website all materials that mention Oleg Blokhin.]. Conflict Intelligence Team (in Russian). 9 January 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2021 – via Twitter.
  20. ^ "YouTube заблокировал каналы ANNA‑News, News Front и "Крым 24"" [YouTube has blocked channels ANNA-News, News Front and Crimea 24]. MediaZona (in Russian). 20 May 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  21. ^ "YouTube has removed three Russian propaganda channels". 20 May 2020.
  22. ^ "Atlantic Council's DFRLab independent analysis of networks removed by Facebook in Russia, Georgia, and Myanmar". Atlantic Council. 5 May 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  23. ^ "Facebook removes propaganda outlets linked to Russian security services". Medium (website). 9 May 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2021.

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