Azerbaijan State News Agency of Information and Communication (SICOM) and a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bahrain's News Agency (BNA) on the sidelines of the 5th News Agencies World Congress. Azerbaijan State News Agency Azerbaijan State News Agency (AZERTAC) is the official news agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Aslan Aslanov has been the agency's director general since 2002. Since 15 march 2018 Chairman of the Board. AZERTAC was established on 1 March 1920. Throughout the Soviet period, the agency held various names and after restoration of Azerbaijani independence in 1991, the agency name was restored. In 1995-2000, the agency was named "State Telegraph
Abkhazian Network News Agency was defaced by the group of Ukrainian hackers, Falcon Flame & Trinity. Abkhazian Network News Agency Abkhazian Network News Agency (more commonly known as ANNA News) is an Abkhazian news agency. 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 . It has been labelled by Western media as pro-Kremlin. ANNA publishes news in the Russian language and is known for sending war reporters