Apsnypress
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| Apsnypress Апсныпресс Аҧсныпресс |
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| Type | State-owned |
| Founded | January 31, 1995 |
| Headquarters | Sukhumi, Abkhazia |
| Key people | Manana Gurgulia, Director |
| Industry | News agency |
| Website | www.apsnypress.info |
Apsnypress is the state press agency of Abkhazia, an unrecognized, but de facto independent republic, considered de jure to be a part of Georgia. Its stated goals is to assist in development of democracy, sovereignty and independence of the Abkhaz republic and to ensure the information security thereof.
[edit] Detailed objectives
Apsnypress is dedicated to collecting, processing, publishing and distributing information pertaining to all sorts of events taking place in Abkhazia or otherwise concerning it. Its other activities include:
- Establishing trends; modeling the development of political and socio-economic tendencies
- Collaborating with the foreign media; accommodating the foreign journalists
- Developing the media network within the republic and abroad
- Improving the staff's professional skills; continuously recruiting of the journalists with knowledge of Russian, Abkhaz and English languages
- Prompt publishing of the Abkhazian laws, presidential decrees and cabinet's decisions; its analysis, generalization and studying and publishing the responses to thereof
- Prompt publishing of statements and appeals by the government bodies and its officials.
- Reflecting the broad array of opinions regarding the important political, socio-economic and cultural events of Abkhazia.
- Preparing and distributing the daily news bulletins
- Preparing and distributing the press reviews
- Organizing the press-conferences and briefings for the senior government officials
- Information activities in the fields of TV and radio broadcasting; preparation of the self and jointly-produced TV a radio programmes
- Carrying out the sociological studies, surveys and analyzing thereof
