Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) On July 10, 1925 the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) was founded and took over the main functions of the Russian Telegraph Agency as the ...

The hyphenated anagram ITAR is history, the management decided - the words Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, added to the Soviet-era-named TASS after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 ...

For a long time the news agency worked in tight cooperation with the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS). In 1991 BelTA became the official news agency of the sovereign Republic of Belarus.