Day.az is an Azerbaijani news portal established in 2003 by MP Anar Mammadkhanov,[1] trading as the Day.Az Media Company.
[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The operators of Day.az claimed that they were the victim of cyberattacks during the 2008 South Ossetia war.
Reports concerning the cause ranged from speculation about "political mistakes", hackers, to creation of a new website.
[1][10] 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, who demanded the shut-off the website.
Later, the website was reopened by Trend News Agency management, loyal to the existing government.