Russian News Agency TASS
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| Federal State Unitary Enterprise | |
| Industry | News media |
| Founded | December 1902 (as Commercial Telegraph Agency) or 1904 (as St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency) |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russian Federation |
| Products | Wire service |
| Owner | wholly owned by federal government (as federal unitary enterprise) |
| Website | tass |
Russian News Agency TASS (Russian: Информационное агентство России ТАСС, tr. Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii TASS), abbr. TASS (Russian: ТАСС) is a major news agency in Russia, founded in 1902. Tass is the largest Russian news agency, and the fourth largest in the world after Reuters, the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Tass is owned by the Government of Russia. Headquartered in Moscow, Russia, Tass has 70 offices in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), as well as 68 bureaus around the world. Tass is the Federal State Unitary Enterprise.
Its origin dates back to December 1902 when it began as the Commercial Telegraph Agency (TTA, Torgovo-Telegrafnoe Agentstvo) under the Ministry of Finance, with Torgovo-Promyshlennaya Gazeta's staff being the main supplier of journalists. As the demand for non-business began during the first battles of the Russo-Japanese War in February 1904, the agency had to change its name to the St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency (SPTA). As there was no change of headquarters and almost no change in its staff and function, it was a mere rebranding. In August 1914, one day after St. Petersburg was renamed Petrograd, SPTA was renamed the Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA). It was seized by Bolsheviks in November 1917 and by December was renamed as the Central Information Agency of the Soviet Russian Council of People's Commissars'.
On September 7, 1918, the government presidium resolved to rename PTA and the Press bureau into the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA). ROSTA became "the central information agency of the whole Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic".
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