| TASS The
Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union was founded on July
10, 1925. It took over the main functions of the Russian
Telegraph Agency as the central information agency of the
country. 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." At its height,
TASS news and photos were received by 4,000 Soviet
newspapers, television and radio stations, and over a
thousand foreign media outlets. The agency ran one of the
biggest networks of correspondents in the world -- with
682 offices in the Soviet Union and 94 bureaus abroad,
and almost 2,000 journalists and photojournalists on
staff.
TASS became the Information Telegraph
Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS) in January 1992, following
the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The official website of ITAR-TASS is www.itar-tass.ru/?langID=2
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