TASS and ITAR-TASS

This page is under construction and is still being written! Any major unauthorised edits will be reverted, but some minor, grammar and spelling fixes are freely allowed if you find any errors of this type. If this article has not been edited after 2 years, please remove this template and edit it freely if you want to.

• Not to be mistaken for the company TASS International Mobility.

Overview

The Soviet media agencies was TASS and ITAR-TASS was the later incarnation of it. Tass is the Federal State Unitary Enterprise, owned by the Government of Russia.

The name ITAR-TASS, abbreviation of: Informatsionnye Telegrafnoye Agentstvto Rossii–Telegrafnoe Agentstvo Sovetskovo Soyuza, (Russian: “Information Telegraph Agency of Russia–Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union”).

The Tass news agency is the largest Russian news agency, and the fourth largest in the world after Reuters, the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP).

History

It was founded in 1902. The Bolsheviks seized it in November 1917 and renamed as the Central Information Agency of the Soviet Russian Council of People's Commissars until 1925, when it became TASS (Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza). A January 1992 presidential decree signed by President Boris Yeltsin re-defined status of Tass and changed its name to the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia.

Units, brands, sub-devisons and former sub-devisions

1. TTA, SPTA, PTA, ROSTA
2. TASS
3. ITAR-TASS
4. Russian news agency (AKA: TASS)
5. TASS press centre

Also see

1. Soviet Social Apparatus
2. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Sources

1. https://twitter.com/tassagency_en
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_News_Agency_TASS
3. https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itar-Tass
4. https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITAR-TASS
5. https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITAR-TASS
6. http://tass.com/
7. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/putin-rules-the-rink/
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_News_Agency_TASS
9. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itar-Tass
10. https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itar-Tass
11. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:ITAR-TASS
12. https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/registration/
13. https://in.rbth.com/author/ITAR-TASS
14. https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/licensing/documents/Guidelines%20for%20Preparing%20Electronic%20Agreements%20Revision%203%20(2).pdf
15. https://www.tassinternational.com/
16. https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/forms-documents/doc_view/781-export-licensing
17. http://tass.com/
18. http://tass.ru/
19. https://www.britannica.com/topic/ITAR-TASS
20. https://www.facebook.com/tassagency.eng
21. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/itar-tass