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ELTA is a Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
n news agency
News agency

A news agency is an organization of journalists established to supply news reports to organizations in the news trade: newspapers, magazines, and All-news radio and News broadcasting broadcasters....
 based in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius
Vilnius

Vilnius is the largest city and the Capital of Lithuania, with a population of 555,613 as of 2008. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality....
.

ELTA was founded in 1920 in Kaunas
Kaunas

Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania and a Temporary capital of Lithuania. It is served by the freeways European route E67 and A1 highway ....
, the second largest city in Lithuania, by Juozas Eretas, the first director of the agency, a literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
 professor
Professor

The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
, publicist
Publicist

A publicist is a person whose employment is to generate and manage publicity for a public figure, especially a celebrity, a business, or for a work such as a book or film....
, and public figure of Swiss descent who sought to make the ELTA news wire as efficient and reliable as a "Swiss watch".

Between 1920 and 1940, ELTA cooperated closely with the most prominent foreign agencies – its five teletypes used to send news from Reuters
Reuters

Reuters Group Limited is a United_Kingdom-based, Canadian controlled news agency and former financial market data provider that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters....
, DNB
Dun & Bradstreet

The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation , headquartered in Short Hills, New Jersey, United States, is a provider of credit information on businesses and corporations....
, HAVAS
Havas

Havas is the second largest advertising group in France and is a "Global advertising and communications services group" and the sixth-largest global advertising and communications group worldwide, operating on the communications consulting market through three main operational divisions: Euro RSCG Worldwide, Havas Media and Arnold Worldwide...
, STEFANI
Stefani

Stefani may refer to:* Stefani, Greece, a settlement in the Boeotia Prefecture* Stefani, Preveza, a village in the municipality of Louros, Preveza Prefecture, Greece...
 and TASS
Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union

The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union , was the central agency for collection and distribution of internal and international news for all Soviet newspapers, radio and television stations....
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ELTA is a Lithuania
Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
n news agency
News agency

A news agency is an organization of journalists established to supply news reports to organizations in the news trade: newspapers, magazines, and All-news radio and News broadcasting broadcasters....
 based in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius
Vilnius

Vilnius is the largest city and the Capital of Lithuania, with a population of 555,613 as of 2008. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality....
.

ELTA was founded in 1920 in Kaunas
Kaunas

Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania and a Temporary capital of Lithuania. It is served by the freeways European route E67 and A1 highway ....
, the second largest city in Lithuania, by Juozas Eretas, the first director of the agency, a literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
 professor
Professor

The meaning of the word professor varies. In some English-speaking countries, it refers to a senior academic who holds a departmental chair, especially as head of the Academic department, or a personal chair awarded specifically to that individual....
, publicist
Publicist

A publicist is a person whose employment is to generate and manage publicity for a public figure, especially a celebrity, a business, or for a work such as a book or film....
, and public figure of Swiss descent who sought to make the ELTA news wire as efficient and reliable as a "Swiss watch".

Between 1920 and 1940, ELTA cooperated closely with the most prominent foreign agencies – its five teletypes used to send news from Reuters
Reuters

Reuters Group Limited is a United_Kingdom-based, Canadian controlled news agency and former financial market data provider that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters....
, DNB
Dun & Bradstreet

The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation , headquartered in Short Hills, New Jersey, United States, is a provider of credit information on businesses and corporations....
, HAVAS
Havas

Havas is the second largest advertising group in France and is a "Global advertising and communications services group" and the sixth-largest global advertising and communications group worldwide, operating on the communications consulting market through three main operational divisions: Euro RSCG Worldwide, Havas Media and Arnold Worldwide...
, STEFANI
Stefani

Stefani may refer to:* Stefani, Greece, a settlement in the Boeotia Prefecture* Stefani, Preveza, a village in the municipality of Louros, Preveza Prefecture, Greece...
 and TASS
Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union

The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union , was the central agency for collection and distribution of internal and international news for all Soviet newspapers, radio and television stations....
. Between 1926 and 1927, the director of ELTA was Justas Paleckis
Justas Paleckis

Justas Paleckis was a Lithuanian journalist and politician. He was the last leader of independent Lithuania from June 17 ? August 3, 1940.In 1926-1927, he was a director of the Lithuanian official news agency, ELTA....
, who later in 1940 was installed as Premier Minister by the Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
s.

When Soviet troops occupied Lithuania in 1940, ELTA was incorporated as a part of the USSR information service known as TASS and relayed news from Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 over the period 1940–1990. With the recovery of national sovereignty in 1990, ELTA also re-established its independence
Independence

Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty....
 from TASS and its direct contacts with leading global agencies. In 1996, ELTA became an independent (non state-owned) national news agency. Now, ELTA is a stock company
Stock company

Stock company can refer to:*Joint stock company *Stock company - referring to a group of actors...
.

Today, ELTA successfully cooperates with foreign news agencies such as Reuters
Reuters

Reuters Group Limited is a United_Kingdom-based, Canadian controlled news agency and former financial market data provider that provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters....
, ITAR-TASS, DPA
Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH is a news agency founded in 1949 in Germany.Based in Hamburg, it has grown to be a major worldwide operation serving print media, radio, television, online, mobile phones, and national news agencies....
, PAP
Polish Press Agency

Polska Agencja Prasowa is a Poland news agency, distributing press releases in a similar way to Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Associated Press....
 and others.

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