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  ITAR TASS
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".
TASS comprised news agencies of all the Soviet republics: RATAU (Ukraine), BELTA (Byelorussia), UZTAG (Uzbekistan), KAZTAG (Kazakhstan), GRUZINFORM (Georgia), AZERINFORM (Azerbaijan), ELTA (Lithuania), ATEM (Moldavia), LATINFORM (Latvia), KIRTAG (Kirghizia), TAJIKTA (Tajikistan), ARMENPRESS (Armenia), TURKMENINFORM (Turkmenia), ETA (Estonia).
TASS news and photos were received by 4,000 Soviet newspapers, TV and radio stations and over a thousand foreign media outlets.
corp.itar-tass.com /eng/about/history.html   (578 words)

  
 TASS.NET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
TASS InfoWerk is an international organization for collecting and disseminating information.
TASS Newswire is our publicly most well-known service.
I don't want to be involved in the politics of Cambodia any more and am glad to have escaped", Pol Pot told a TASS reporter when he was confronted with reports claiming his exile was faked.
www.tass.net   (270 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After the Bolshevik revolution PTA merged in 1918 with the Press bureau at the government of Soviet Russia into the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA).
In 1925 the Soviet government founded the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS).
The current name of the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS) the agency received in January 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the proclamation of sovereignty by democratic Russia.
www.india.mid.ru /itar.html   (393 words)

  
 International News - Itar-Tass Russia and CIS News Digest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The search of the setllement has turned up nine land-mines, 43hand-grenades, seven submachine-guns, two shoulder-fired grenade-launchers,sniper rifles, 3,000 rounds of ammunition and 103 kilogrammes of sodiumoxide, a chemical used in explosive devices.
Chechen warlords rely on Chechens currently living in Afghanistan toincrease memebrship in their gangs, a spokesman for the press centre of theJoint Troops in Chechnya told Tass on Wednesday.
Some Muslim religiousactivists and members of the anti-Russian Organization Trevoga (Anxiety) areengaged in propaganda aimed at inciting hatred to the federal troops amonglocal people, the source said.
www.landmines.org.uk /NewsWire_Article/520   (265 words)

  
 Exhibition of Historical Russian Photographs from ITAR-TASS Archives to Open at UN Headquarters
About ITAR-TASS: Established by a decree of the last Romanov Czar, Nicholas II, on Sep.1, 1904, the first Russian official news organization through the years has carried different names.
At first it was known as the St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency, later with the re-naming of the city -- as the Petrograd Telegraph Agency, the Russian Telegraph Agency and -- finally -- as the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union /TASS/.
In 1992 when Russia proclaimed its sovereignty it was re-named one more time to be known as the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia /ITAR-TASS/.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/09-20-2004/0002253192&EDATE=   (1153 words)

  
 Altai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Governor of the Altai Territory Mikhail Yevdokimov died in a road crash near the city of Biisk on Sunday, Tass learnt at the press service of the Russian...
MOSCOW, August 7 (Itar-Tass) - Governor of the Altai Territory Mikhail Yevdokimov died in a road crash near the city of Biisk on Sunday, Tass learnt at the...
The Altai Territory has introduced the state social scholarship for students learning in secondary vocational schools, the regional administration told Itar...
www.conservation.mongabay.com /news/Altai.htm   (6341 words)

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