page_title: TASS
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: TASS / Organization
caption_attribution_description: TASS Building
context_page_description: Russian News Agency TASS, abbreviated TASS, is a major news agency in Russia founded in 1904. TASS is the largest Russian news agency and one of the largest news agencies worldwide, along with Reuters, the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse.
  TASS is registered as a Federal State Unitary Enterprise, owned by the Government of Russia. Headquartered in Moscow, TASS has 70 offices in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as 68 bureaus around the world.
  In Soviet times, it was named the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union 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, the agency was renamed Information Telegraph Agency of Russia in 1992, but regained the simpler TASS name in 2014.
context_section_description: TASS is registered as a Federal State Unitary Enterprise, owned by the Government of Russia. Headquartered in Moscow, TASS has 70 offices in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), as well as 68 bureaus around the world.
caption: TASS building entrance at night
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