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The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza; abbr. TASS), was the central agency for collection and distribution of internal and international news for all Soviet newspapers, radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 stations. It had a monopoly on official state information which was delivered in the form of TASS Report (Soobshcheniye TASS).

It was established on 25 July 1925 by decree of the Soviet Union
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....
 Supreme Soviet
Supreme Soviet

The Supreme Soviet of the USSR was the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in the interim of the sessions of the Congress of Soviets, and the only one with the power to pass constitutional amendments....
's presidium.






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The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza; abbr. TASS), was the central agency for collection and distribution of internal and international news for all Soviet newspapers, radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 stations. It had a monopoly on official state information which was delivered in the form of TASS Report (Soobshcheniye TASS).

It was established on 25 July 1925 by decree of the Soviet Union
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....
 Supreme Soviet
Supreme Soviet

The Supreme Soviet of the USSR was the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in the interim of the sessions of the Congress of Soviets, and the only one with the power to pass constitutional amendments....
's presidium. Tass was created from the Russian Telegraph Agency
Russian Telegraph Agency

Russian Telegraph Agency , abbreviation Rosta was the state news agency in Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic . After the creation of Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union in 1925, it remained the news agency of the Soviet Russia....
 (ROSTA), the first state news agency in Soviet Russia. The agency was frequently infiltrated by the Soviet intelligence and security agencies, the NKVD
NKVD

The NKVD or People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the leading secret police organization of the Soviet Union that was responsible for Soviet political repressions during the Stalinism era....
 and GRU
GRU

GRU or Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje Upravlenije is the acronym for the foreign military intelligence directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, ....
. Many of its employees also voluntarily served as information sources of intelligence to the NKVD (later, the KGB
KGB

KGB is the Russian language abbreviation of Committee for State Security , which was the official name of the umbrella organization serving as the Soviet Union's premier security agency, secret police, and intelligence agency, from 1954 to 1991....
).

After 1971, TASS was elevated to the status of State Committee at the Government of the Soviet Union
Government of the Soviet Union

Council of Ministers of the USSR was the Soviet government?the highest executive and Administration body of the Soviet Union. Between 1922 and 1946 it was named Council of People's Commissars of the USSR ....
. Tass had affiliates in 14 Union republics (Russian republic was covered by Tass itself):

  • RATAU (Ukrainian SSR
    Ukrainian SSR

    The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or the Ukrainian SSR was one of the founders of the USSR and a republic that made up the former Soviet Union from its formation in 1922 to its abolishment in 1991....
    )
  • BelTA
    Belarusian Telegraph Agency

    The Belarusian Telegraph Agency or BelTA is the state-owned national news agency of the Republic of Belarus. It operates in Russian and Belarusian languages....
     (Byelorussian SSR
    Byelorussian SSR

    The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of Republics of the Soviet Union of the Soviet Union. It was one of the four original founding members of the Soviet Union in 1922, together with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic....
    )
  • UzTAG (Uzbek SSR
    Uzbek SSR

    The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Uzbek SSR for short, was one of the republics of the Soviet Union since its creation in 1924....
    )
  • KazTAG (Kazakh SSR
    Kazakh SSR

    The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Kazakh SSR for short, was one of Republics of the Soviet Union that made up the Soviet Union....
    )
  • Gruzinform (Georgian SSR
    Georgian SSR

    The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Georgian SSR for short, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union that made up the former Soviet Union....
    )
  • Azerinform (Azerbaijan SSR
    Azerbaijan SSR

    The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Azerbaijan SSR for short, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union that made up the former Soviet Union....
    )
  • ELTA
    ELTA

    'ELTA' is a Lithuanian news agency based in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.ELTA was founded in 1920 in Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania, by Juozas Eretas, the first director of the agency, a literature professor, publicist, and public figure of Swiss descent who sought to make the ELTA news wire as efficient and reliable as a "S...
     (Lithuanian SSR
    Lithuanian SSR

    The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Lithuanian SSR for short, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union that made up the former Soviet Union....
    )
  • ATEM (Moldavian SSR
    Moldavian SSR

    The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic , commonly abbreviated to Moldavian SSR or MSSR, was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union....
    )
  • Latinform (Latvian SSR
    Latvian SSR

    The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Latvian SSR for short, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union that made up the Soviet Union....
    ), current LETA
    LETA

    LETA is the main Latvian news agency. Its headquarters are in Riga....
  • KyrTAG (Kyrgyz SSR)
  • TajikTA (Tajik SSR
    Tajik SSR

    The Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Tajik SSR for short, was one of the 15 Republics of the Soviet Union that made up the Soviet Union....
    )
  • Armenpress (Armenian SSR
    Armenian SSR

    The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Armenian SSR for short, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union that made up the former Soviet Union....
    )
  • Turkmeninform (Turkmen SSR
    Turkmen SSR

    The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Turkmen SSR for short, was one of republics of the Soviet Union in Soviet Central Asia....
    )
  • ETA (Estonian SSR
    Estonian SSR

    The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic , often abbreviated as Estonian SSR or ESSR, was puppet state backed by Soviet Union on the territory of Republic of Estonia....
    )


Over the history other affiliates existed, e.g., KarelfinTAG (???????????), or Telegraph Agency of the Karelo-Finnish SSR
Karelo-Finnish SSR

The Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic was a short-lived Republic of the Soviet Union that was a part of the former Soviet Union. The republic existed from 1940 until it was merged back into the Russian SFSR in 1956 ....
.

TASS had bureaus and reporters in 110 countries, with a daily output equal to 750 newspaper pages, translated into eight (non-Soviet) languages. It had nearly 5000 employees, with about a fifth being journalists.

TASS had the following Main Editorial Boards: Main Editorial Board of Union Information, of Foreign Information, of Socialist Countries, of Information for Foreign Countries, of Photoinformation and Main Directorate of Communications.

In 1992, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was inherited by the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia
Information Telegraph Agency of Russia

The Information Telegraph Agency of Russia , is the major news agency of Russia. It is headquartered in Moscow....
 (ITAR-TASS).