Day.az is an
Azerbaijani news portal established in 2003 by MP
Anar Mammadkhanov,
trading as the Day.Az Media Company. The content is published in
Russian
Russian(s) may refer to:
*Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*A citizen of Russia
*Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages
*''The Russians'', a b ...
(day.az),
English (today.az) and in
Azerbaijani (milli.az) since February 1, 2010.
Disruptions
The operators of Day.az claimed that they were the victim of
cyberattacks during the 2008 South Ossetia war. On 11 August 2009, Day.az and
ANS Press were disrupted, with day.az being inaccessible for almost two hours. On 18 February 2009, the portal became inaccessible, and on the following day the domains' day.az and today.az were removed from the
.az top-level domain. Reports concerning the cause ranged from speculation about "political mistakes",
hacker
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s, to creation of a new website.
The sale process was triggered by the interview of
Boris Berezovsky who is in exile in UK which angered Russian president at the time,
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Ru ...
, who demanded the shut-off the website. Later, the website was reopened by Trend News Agency management, loyal to the existing government.
References
External links
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Azerbaijani news websites
News agencies based in Azerbaijan
Mass media companies of Azerbaijan
Publications established in 2003
Azerbaijani-language websites
Russian-language websites
2003 establishments in Azerbaijan
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