Russian News Agency TASS, abbreviated TASS, is a major Russian state-owned news agency founded in 1904.
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11 Facts About TASS
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TASS is the largest Russian news agency and one of the largest news agencies worldwide.
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TASS is registered as a Federal State Unitary Enterprise, owned by the Government of Russia.
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TASS enjoyed "exclusive right to gather and distribute information outside the Soviet Union, as well as the right to distribute foreign and domestic information within the Soviet Union, and manage the news agencies of the Soviet republics".
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TASS included affiliated news agencies in all 14 Soviet republics in addition to Russia: RATAU, BelTA, ETA, Latinform, ELTA, ATEM, Armenpress, Gruzinform, Azerinform, UzTAG, KazTAG, KyrTAG, Turkmeninform and TajikTA .
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In January 1992, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a Presidential Decree signed by Boris Yeltsin re-defined status of TASS and renamed it the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia.
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TASS is registered as a Federal State Unitary Enterprise, owned by the Government of Russia.
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TASS multi-media press center is a communication floor in the heart of Moscow.
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TASS is a media partner of high-profile conferences, forums and exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
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TASS is headquartered in a building in the Soviet brutalist style built in 1977.
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TASS has been cited as a source of disinformation as part of Russian influence operations.
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