Agentura.Ru (Russian: Агентура.Ру) is an Russian web-site founded in 2000 as internet-community of journalists who cover terrorism, and
Intelligence agencies. Agentura.Ru is considered one of most respectable sources on . Editor of Agentura.Ru is
Andrei Soldatov. Agentura.Ru has been reported and featured in
the New York Times,
the Moscow Times,
the Washington Post, Online Journalism Review,
Le Monde, The Christian Science Monitor,
CNN,
Federation of American Scientists, BBC, as well in websites of The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies,
Center for Defence Information, The Library of Congress, Cambridge Security Programme. Agentura.Ru is quoted by
The New York Times as "A Web Site That Came in From the Cold to Unveil Russian Secrets".
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in
its annual report "Attacks on the press 2003" quoted Agentura.Ru: "While some Russian newspapers like the Moscow-based twice-weekly Novaya Gazeta have developed a strong tradition of exposing government abuses and continue to do so, others have been dissuaded after seeing colleagues murdered, beaten, prosecuted, and fined. Journalists who have opted for publishing on the Internet-like Andrei Soldatov, who runs the Web site Agentura.ru and specializes in writing about Russia's powerful security services-have been detained and questioned by security forces angered by articles about their activities". In September of 2005 Agentura.Ru Studies and Research Centre / ASRC /, research department of Agentura.Ru project, has published the research paper
“Terrorism prevention in Russia: one year after Beslan” (English). Short version of it has been republished in RUSI/Jane's Homeland Security and Resilience Monitor. On June 2006 Agentura.Ru Studies and Research Centre prepared the report
"Al Qaeda. The role in the North Caucasus". First published in Novaya Gazeta. Since January 2006 Agentura.Ru has cooperation with
Novaya Gazeta covering intelligence and
terrorism issues.
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