TASS

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Russian News Agency TASS

TASS building in Moscow
Company type	Federal State Unitary Enterprise
Industry	State news agency
Founded	1 September 1904; 119 years ago (1904-09-01)
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Andrey Kondrashov (director)[1]
Products	News media
Owner	Wholly owned by federal government (as federal unitary enterprise)
Website	tass.com

The Russian News Agency TASS (Russian: Информационное агентство России ТАСС, tr. Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii, or Information agency of Russia), abbreviated TASS (ТАСС), is a Russian state-owned news agency founded in 1904. It is the largest Russian news agency and one of the largest news agencies worldwide.^[2]

TASS is registered as a Federal State Unitary Enterprise, owned by the Government of Russia.^[3] Headquartered in Moscow, it has 70 offices in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), "along with 56 global branches in 53 countries".^[4]

In Soviet times, it was named the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (Телеграфное агентство Советского Союза, Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza) and was the central agency for news collection and distribution for all Soviet newspapers, radio and television stations. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was renamed Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS) (Информационное телеграфное агентство России (ИТАР-ТАСС), informatsionnoye telegrafnoye agentstvo Rossii (ITAR-TASS)) in 1992, but regained the simpler TASS name in 2014. Currently, on a daily basis TASS is "publishing nearly 3,000 news items in six languages and about 700 photographs and videos from correspondents in Russia and across the world".^[4]