Английская Википедия:ANNA News
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox company ANNA News (Analytical Network News Agency) is a Russian pro-KremlinШаблон:Refn news agency.[1] The agency's name ANNA used to stand for "Abkhazian Network News Agency"; after the head office moved to Moscow, when registering in Roskomnadzor on 22 September 2017,[2] "Abkhazian" was changed to "Analytical".
History
ANNA News was officially registered as mass media in Abkhazia on 18 July 2011 after the events of the Abkhaz–Georgian conflict.[3][4] It was founded and managed by Marat Musin until his death in May 2018.[5] Musin was a specialist in financial intelligence who worked at Moscow State University and at the Шаблон:Not translated.[6]
The agency takes a pro-Kremlin position,[7][8] and is part of a wider network of outlets that amplifies Russian propaganda.[8] ANNA publishes in the Russian language and is known for being "a voracious purveyor of insider YouTube footage of the Syrian civil war since 2012"; ANNA embedded with the Syrian Arab Army in their operations against rebels.[9][10] It has been known for publishing footage recorded directly from Syrian Army tanks.[11] 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.[12][13] Berezhnoy said that he participated in the coverage of the military operation in Syria as a writer.[14] According to a 2018 publication from the Moscow Psychological and Social University, ANNA News works with officers of the information confrontation group of the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria.[15]
ANNA journalists were also embedded with Russian-backed separatists fighting the Government of Ukraine since 2014.[16][17]
In May 2020, ANNA News was banned from YouTube for violating its terms of service.[18][19][20][21][22] It was revealed that employees of ANNA also worked for Russian propaganda websites NewsFront and SouthFront,[23][20] and that NewsFront had raised money for ANNA in 2014.[20] Both ANNA News and SouthFront support separatist forces in Ukraine.[24][25][26] In August 2021, president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, based on the decision of the National Security and Defence Council, signed a decree "on the application of personal special economic and other restrictive measures" against ANNA News. The decision ordered the web resources of the news agency to be blocked.[27][28]
Content
According to U.S. intelligence officer T. S. Allen, Pascal Andresen and the Ukrainian magazine Political Life, it is engaged in influence operations and is a propaganda tool.[29][30][31] According to The Moscow Times newspaper, it has a 'forceful pro-Assad slant.'[6] Professor of Arabic language and civilisation Stéphane Valter writes that the way the news agency diffuse their images "clearly indicates a bias in favour of the Syrian regime."[32]
In June 2014, ANNA News falsely claimed that political advisor Jen Psaki had been fired from the US State Department.[33] In the fall of 2014, the agency published a fake photo of several dead people who were allegedly killed by the Ukrainian authorities.[34]
On 5 January 2017, ANNA News falsely claimed that the jihadist organisation Al-Nusra Front, which fought against the Syrian authorities, calls the White Helmets volunteer organisation "soldiers of the revolution".[35]
In February 2017, ANNA News claimed that Ukraine was the source of a leak of radioactive iodine-131. The news agency did not provide any evidence.[36][37][38]
In late 2017, ANNA News journalist Oleg Blokhin based in Syria created staged photos to substantiate the existence of a fake private military company Turan.[39][40][41] After it was discovered that the photos were fake, ANNA removed all of Blokhin materials from its website.[42] Oleg Blokhin categorically rejected the claims of Russian research group Conflict Intelligence Team that the PMC Turan, fighting in Syria, is a fiction created by him.[43] He also mentioned that neither he nor ANNA News have ever released information about "Turan", since he doesn't comment on information of any Russian units in Syria at all.[44]
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- ↑ Adam Taylor & Joyce Lee, U.S. troops abandoned their Syrian base. Video appears to show Russians have moved in, Washington Post (October 15, 2019): "pro-Kremlin media outlets such as the Abkhazian Network News Agency"
- ↑ 8,0 8,1 The Kremlin's Amplifiers in Germany: The activists, bots, and trolls that boost Russian propaganda, Atlantic Council Digital Forensic Research Lab (June 22, 2017).
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