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{{shortShort description|Russian state-owned news agency}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Russian News Agency TASS
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| image = Итар-Тасс.jpg
| image_size = 300px
| image_caption = TASS Soviet-era brutalist building in [[Moscow]]
| type = [[Federal State Unitary Enterprise]]
| foundation = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1904|09|01}}
| successor =
| defunct =
| location = [[Moscow]], [[Russia]]
| key_people = Andrey Kondrashov (director)<ref name=kondrashov>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rbc.ru/politics/05/07/2023/64a541909a7947e275763703|title=Мишустин назначил автора фильмов про Путина гендиректором ТАСС|language=ru|date=2023-07-05|website=Rbc.ru}}</ref>
| key_people = Sergei Mikhailov
| revenue =
| industry = [[State media|State]] [[news agency]]
| products = [[News media]]
| owner = Wholly owned by [[Government of Russia|federal government]] (as federal [[unitary enterprise]])
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The '''Russian News Agency TASS''' (,{{efn|{{lang-rurus|Информацио́нноеИнформационное аге́нтствоагентство Росси́иРоссии ТАСС|translit=Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii TASS}}}}, or Information agency of Russia), abbreviatedsimply '''TASS''' ({{lang-ru|ТАСС|label=none}}), is a major Russian [[State media|state-owned]] [[news agency]] founded in 1904. TASSIt is the largest Russian news agency and one of the largest news agencies worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |title=Russia – Media Landscape |website=European Journalism Centre |url=http://ejc.net/media_landscapes/russia#link_312 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320003807/http://ejc.net/media_landscapes/russia#link_312 |archive-date=20 March 2018 |url-status=dead |access-date=14 March 2016 }}</ref>
 
TASS is registered as a [[Federal State Unitary Enterprise]], owned by the [[Governmentgovernment of Russia]].<ref name=KRadia>{{cite news|last1= Radia|first1= Kirit|title= Putin Rules the Rink|url= https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/putin-rules-the-rink/|access-date= 25 December 2014|publisher= ABC News|date= 10 May 2014}}</ref> Headquartered in Moscow, TASSit has 70 offices in Russia and in the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]] (CIS), as"along wellwith as56 68global bureausbranches aroundin the53 worldcountries".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=About TASS |url=https://tass.com/today |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=tass.com}}</ref>
 
In the Soviet timesperiod, it was named the '''Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union''' ({{lang-ru|Телегра́фноеТелеграфное аге́нтствоагентство Сове́тскогоСоветского Сою́заСоюза|translit=Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza|label=none}}) and was the central agency of the [[Government of the Soviet Union|Soviet government]] for news collection and distribution for all Soviet newspapers, radio and television stations. After the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]], the agencyit was renamed '''Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS)''' ({{lang-ru|Информацио́нноеИнформационное телегра́фноетелеграфное аге́нтствоагентство Росси́иРоссии (ИТА́РИТАР-ТАСС)|translit=Informatsionnoyeinformatsionnoye telegrafnoye agentstvo Rossii (ITAR-TASS)|label=none}}) in 1992, but regainedreverted to 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".<ref name=2014-name":0" />
 
== History ==
[[File:Tass Barry Kent.jpg|right|thumb|Historic TASS headquarters in Moscow]]
 
=== 1902: TTA, SPTA, PTA, ROSTA ===
The origin of TASS dates back to December 1902 when it began operations as the Commercial Telegraph Agency (TTA, Torgovo-Telegrafnoe Agentstvo) under the Ministry of Finance, with Torgovo-Promyshlennaya Gazeta's staff being the main supplier of journalists. As the demand for non-business news began during the first battles of the [[Russo-Japanese War]] in February 1904, the agency had to changechanged its name to the St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency (SPTA). As there was no change of headquarters and almost no change in its staff and function, it was a mere rebranding.
 
In August 1914, one day after [[Saint Petersburg|St. Petersburg]] was renamed Petrograd, SPTA was renamed the Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA). It was seized by the [[Bolsheviks]] in November 1917 and by December was renamed as the Central Information Agency of the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Soviet Russian]] [[Government of the Soviet Union|Council of People's Commissars]]. On 7 September 1918, the presidium renamed PTA and the Press bureau into the Russian Telegraph Agency ([[Russian Telegraph Agency|ROSTA]]), which became "the central information agency of the whole Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic".{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}
 
=== 1925: TASS ===
In July 1925, the ''Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (Телеграфное агентство Советского Союза, Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza, TASS)'' was established by a decree of the [[Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]], and took over the duties of the ROSTA as the country's central information agency. 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". Official state information was delivered as the ''TASS Report'' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Сообщение ТАСС}}, ''Soobshchyeniye TASS'').▼
[[File:Zdanie tass.jpg|right|thumb|TASS building entrance with globe]]
 
TASS included affiliated news agencies in all 14 (in 1940–56, 15) Soviet republics in addition to Russia: RATAU ([[Ukrainian SSR]], now [[Ukrinform]]), [[Belarusian Telegraph Agency|BelTA]] ([[Byelorussian SSR]]), ETA ([[Estonian SSR]]), Latinform ([[Latvian SSR]], now [[LETA]]), [[ELTA]] ([[Lithuanian SSR]]), ATEM ([[Moldavian SSR]], now [[Moldpres]]), [[Armenpress]] ([[Armenian SSR]]), Gruzinform ([[Georgian SSR]]), Azerinform ([[Azerbaijan SSR]], now [[AZERTAC]]), UzTAG ([[Uzbek SSR]], now [[Uzbekistan National News Agency|UzA]]), KazTAG ([[Kazakh SSR]], now [[Kazinform]]), KyrTAG ([[Kyrgyz SSR]], now [[Kabar (news agency)|Kabar]]), Turkmeninform ([[Turkmen SSR]], now [[TDH (news agency)|TDH]]) and TajikTA ([[Tajik SSR]], now [[Khovar]]). Over the history other affiliates existed, e.g. KarelfinTAG for the short-lived [[Karelo-Finnish SSR]] (1940–56).{{citation needed|date=May 2017}} In addition to producing reports for general consumption, TASS produced packages of content for non-public use. Western news reports and potentially embarrassing domestic news would be compiled daily into a collection known as "White Tass,", and particularly important{{clarify|If access is restricted then "important" can't be the right term -- maybe "sensitive"?|date=August 2020}} news would be compiled into a smaller collection known as "Red Tass.". These collections were made available only to Soviet journalistic and political leaders, and to top journalists and political leaders, respectively.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hoffman |first=Erik P. |date=1984 |title=The Soviet Polity in the Modern Era |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63_obglArrMC |location=New York |publisher=[[DeGruyter]] |page=644 |isbn=0202241645 }}</ref>▼
▲In July 1925 the ''Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (Телеграфное агентство Советского Союза, Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza, TASS)'' was established by a decree of the [[Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]], and took over the duties of the ROSTA as the country's central information agency. 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". Official state information was delivered as the ''TASS Report'' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Сообщение ТАСС}}, ''Soobshchyeniye TASS'').
 
In 1961, [[Ria Novosti]] was created to supplement TASS, mainly in foreign reporting and human-interest stories. After 1971, TASS was elevated to the status of State Committee at the [[Government of the Soviet Union]].▼
▲TASS included affiliated news agencies in all 14 Soviet republics in addition to Russia: RATAU ([[Ukrainian SSR]], now [[Ukrinform]]), [[Belarusian Telegraph Agency|BelTA]] ([[Byelorussian SSR]]), ETA ([[Estonian SSR]]), Latinform ([[Latvian SSR]], now [[LETA]]), [[ELTA]] ([[Lithuanian SSR]]), ATEM ([[Moldavian SSR]], now [[Moldpres]]), [[Armenpress]] ([[Armenian SSR]]), Gruzinform ([[Georgian SSR]]), Azerinform ([[Azerbaijan SSR]], now [[AZERTAC]]), UzTAG ([[Uzbek SSR]], now [[Uzbekistan National News Agency|UzA]]), KazTAG ([[Kazakh SSR]], now [[Kazinform]]), KyrTAG ([[Kyrgyz SSR]], now [[Kabar (news agency)|Kabar]]), Turkmeninform ([[Turkmen SSR]], now [[TDH (news agency)|TDH]]) and TajikTA ([[Tajik SSR]], now [[Khovar]]). Over the history other affiliates existed, e.g. KarelfinTAG for the [[Karelo-Finnish SSR]].{{citation needed|date=May 2017}} In addition to producing reports for general consumption, TASS produced packages of content for non-public use. Western news reports and potentially embarrassing domestic news would be compiled daily into a collection known as "White Tass," and particularly important{{clarify|If access is restricted then "important" can't be the right term -- maybe "sensitive"?|date=August 2020}} news would be compiled into a smaller collection known as "Red Tass." These collections were made available only to journalistic and political leaders, and to top journalists and political leaders, respectively.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hoffman |first=Erik P. |date=1984 |title=The Soviet Polity in the Modern Era |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63_obglArrMC |location=New York |publisher=[[DeGruyter]] |page=644 |isbn=0202241645 }}</ref>
 
The agency was frequently used as a [[front organization]] by the Soviet intelligence agencies, such as the [[NKVD]] (later [[KGB]]) and [[GRU (Soviet Union)|Main Intelligence Directorate]], with TASS employees serving as [[informants]] abroad.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kruglak |first=Theodore Eduard |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/32490 |title=The Two Faces of TASS |date=1962 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-1-4529-3712-0 |location=Minneapolis}}</ref> In 1959, [[Alexander Alexeyev (diplomat)|Alexander Alexeyev]] was dispatched to Cuba on a fact-finding mission, ostensibly working for TASS.<ref>{{cite interview |last=Alexeyev |first=Alexander |title=Interview with Alexander Alekseyev [Soviet Ambassador to Cuba] |work=[[National Security Archive]] |publisher=[[George Washington University]] |url=http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB400/docs/Interview%20with%20Alekseev.pdf |access-date=30 March 2013}}</ref> Former [[Georgetown University]] professor James David Atkinson stated that TASS was an "effective propaganda medium" but that it concentrated "more heavily on espionage than on other activities."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Atkinson |first=James David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I75sDwAAQBAJ |title=The Edge of War |date=2018-09-03 |publisher=Pickle Partners Publishing |isbn=978-1-78912-280-0 |language=en |oclc=1050955447}}</ref> TASS frequently served as a vector for Soviet [[active measures]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rid |first=Thomas |title=Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare |date=2020-04-21 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=978-0-374-71865-7 |language=en}}</ref>▼
▲In 1961 [[Ria Novosti]] was created to supplement TASS, mainly in foreign reporting and human-interest stories. After 1971, TASS was elevated to the status of State Committee at the [[Government of the Soviet Union]].
 
▲The agency was frequently used as a [[front organization]] by the Soviet intelligence agencies, such as the [[NKVD]] (later [[KGB]]) and [[GRU (Soviet Union)|Main Intelligence Directorate]], with TASS employees serving as [[informants]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kruglak |first=Theodore Eduard |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/book/32490 |title=The Two Faces of TASS |date=1962 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |isbn=978-1-4529-3712-0 |location=Minneapolis}}</ref> In 1959, [[Alexander Alexeyev (diplomat)|Alexander Alexeyev]] was dispatched to Cuba on a fact-finding mission, ostensibly working for TASS.<ref>{{cite interview |last=Alexeyev |first=Alexander |title=Interview with Alexander Alekseyev [Soviet Ambassador to Cuba] |work=[[National Security Archive]] |publisher=[[George Washington University]] |url=http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB400/docs/Interview%20with%20Alekseev.pdf |access-date=30 March 2013}}</ref> Former [[Georgetown University]] professor James David Atkinson stated that TASS was an "effective propaganda medium" but that it concentrated "more heavily on espionage than on other activities."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Atkinson |first=James David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I75sDwAAQBAJ |title=The Edge of War |date=2018-09-03 |publisher=Pickle Partners Publishing |isbn=978-1-78912-280-0 |language=en |oclc=1050955447}}</ref> TASS frequently served as a vector for Soviet [[active measures]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rid |first=Thomas |title=Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare |date=2020-04-21 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=978-0-374-71865-7 |language=en}}</ref>
 
=== 1992: ITAR-TASS ===
In January 1992, following the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]], a [[Decree of the President of Russia|Presidential Decree]] signed by [[Boris Yeltsin]] re-defined the status of TASS and renamed it the ''Information Telegraph Agency of Russia''. In May 1994, Thethe [[Government of Russia|Russian Government]] adopted a [[Order of the Government of Russia|resolution]] "''On approval of the Charter of the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia''", under which it operates as a central government news agency. The TASS acronym was, by this point, well-recognized around the world and so was retained after being redefined as the ''Telegraph agency of communication and messages'' ({{lang-rus|Телеграфное агентство связи и сообщения|Telegrafnoye agentstvo svazi i soobshcheniya}}). The agency as a whole was referred to as "ITAR-TASS".
 
In September 2014, the agency reverted to its former name as the ''Russian News Agency TASS''.{{Citation needed |date=September 2023}}
 
In September 2014 the agency regained its former name as ''Russian News Agency TASS''.<ref name=2014-name>{{cite news |url=https://lenta.ru/news/2014/03/18/tass/ |title=ИТАР-ТАСС вернется к советскому названию |language=ru |trans-title=ITAR-TASS returns to its Soviet name |work=[[Lenta.ru]] |date=18 March 2014 |access-date=28 May 2017}}</ref>
== Organization ==
[[File:Tass2 Barry Kent.jpg|thumb|TASS building entrance at night]]
 
TASS is registered as a [[Federal State Unitary Enterprise]], owned by the [[Government of Russia]].<ref name="KRadia"/> 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.
 
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=== TASS building ===
TASS is headquartered in a building in the Soviet [[Brutalist architecture|brutalist]] style built in 1977. In November 2021, an association of Russian architects criticized plans by Moscow city authorities to renovate the building without due regard for the preservation of its historic appearance.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Times|first=The Moscow|date=2021-11-11|title=Russian Architects Blast Plans to Renovate Iconic TASS Building|url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/11/11/russian-architects-blast-plans-to-renovate-iconic-tass-building-a75528|access-date=2021-11-12|website=The Moscow Times|language=en}}</ref>
 
== Controversies and criticisms ==
TASS has been cited as a source of [[disinformation]] as part of Russian [[influence operations]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Russian Federation in Global Knowledge Warfare: Influence Operations in Europe and Its Neighbourhood |series=Contributions to International Relations |date=2021 |publisher=Springer International Publishing |isbn=978-3-030-73954-6 |editor-last=Mölder |editor-first=Holger |location=Cham |pages=310 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-73955-3 |s2cid=240562891 |oclc=1261878464 |editor-last2=Sazonov |editor-first2=Vladimir |editor-last3=Chochia |editor-first3=Archil |editor-last4=Kerikmäe |editor-first4=Tanel}}</ref>
 
===2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine===
{{seefurther|Disinformation in the 2021–20222022 Russo-UkrainianRussian crisisinvasion of Ukraine}}
 
* On 27 February 2022, "under the circumstances of the new media regulation enforced by the Russian government, which is heavily restricting media freedom", the [[European Alliance of News Agencies]] (EANA) unanimously decided to suspend TASS as "not being able to provide unbiased news", pending an exclusion decision.<ref>{{cite web|title=The European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) suspends TASS from Alliance pending exclusion decision|website = [[Forbes]]|url=https://www.newsalliance.org/news/the-european-alliance-of-news-agencies-eana-suspends-tass-from-alliance-pending-exclusion-decision|date=27 February 2022|access-date=13 March 2022}}</ref>
* In March 2022, [[Getty Images]], after "monitoring Russian state news agency TASS closely since Russia’sRussia's invasion of Ukraine" decided to end its partnership with TASS for what it said was violating editorial policy.<ref>{{cite web|title=Getty Images Cuts Ties With Kremlin-Linked News Agency Tass|website = [[Forbes]]|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/martyswant/2022/03/08/getty-images-cuts-ties-with-kremlin-linked-news-agency-tass/?sh=62af1bcc72b4|date=8 March 2022|access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref>▼
 
Examples{{As of|March 2022|post=,}} examples of propagation of disinformation in relation to the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]] are as follows:▼
▲* In March 2022, [[Getty Images]], after "monitoring Russian state news agency TASS closely since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine" decided to end its partnership with TASS for what it said was violating editorial policy.<ref>{{cite web|title=Getty Images Cuts Ties With Kremlin-Linked News Agency Tass|website = [[Forbes]]|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/martyswant/2022/03/08/getty-images-cuts-ties-with-kremlin-linked-news-agency-tass/?sh=62af1bcc72b4|date=8 March 2022|access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref>
 
* TASS falsely claimed that Ukrainian President [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]] fled [[Kyiv]] following the invasion and also that he had surrendered. {{Not in citation givenneeded|date=OctoberDecember 2022}} Zelenskyy used social media to post statements, videos and photos to counter this Russian disinformation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-kyiv-technology-misinformation-5e884b85f8dbb54d16f5f10d105fe850|title=Russian propaganda 'outgunned' by social media rebuttals|first1=David|last1=Klepper|work=[[Associated Press]]|date=March 5, 2022|accessdate=March 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306005127/https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-kyiv-technology-misinformation-5e884b85f8dbb54d16f5f10d105fe850|archive-date=March 6, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/02/26/world/volodymyr-zelenskyy-wartime-president/|title=Ukraine's TV comedian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy finds his role as wartime leader|first1=Marc|last1=Champion|first2=Daryna|last2=Krasnolutska|date=26 February 2022|accessdate=March 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226123724/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/02/26/world/volodymyr-zelenskyy-wartime-president/|archive-date=26 February 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>▼
▲Examples of propagation of disinformation in relation to the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]] are as follows:
*On 6 March 2022, TASS made unsubstantiated claims that Ukraine was making a nuclear [[dirty bomb]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Russia, without evidence, says Ukraine making nuclear "dirty bomb"|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-without-evidence-says-ukraine-making-nuclear-dirty-bomb-2022-03-06/|date=6 March 2022|access-date=6 March 2022|publisher=Reuters}}</ref>▼
 
*In March 2022 TASS published unsubstantiated claims that "Ukrainian nationalists" were responsible for Ukrainian civilians not being able to leave the city of [[Mariupol]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: nationalists take away school buses intended for refugees|url=https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/14032373|date=11 March 2022|access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Military operation in Ukraine.|url=https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/14032183|date=11 March 2022|access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref> while the city was besieged and bombed by the Russian military.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mariupol residents suffer as Russian forces lay siege|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/3/8/photos-residents-suffer-in-besieged-city-of-mariupol-ukraine-russia-war|date=8 March 2022|access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Mariupol says children's hospital destroyed by Russian bombing|newspaper=National Post|url=https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/mariupol-says-childrens-hospital-destroyed-by-russian-bombing|date=9 March 2022|access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref>▼
▲*TASS falsely claimed that Ukrainian President [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]] fled [[Kyiv]] following the invasion and also that he had surrendered. {{Not in citation given|date=October 2022}} Zelenskyy used social media to post statements, videos and photos to counter Russian disinformation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-kyiv-technology-misinformation-5e884b85f8dbb54d16f5f10d105fe850|title=Russian propaganda 'outgunned' by social media rebuttals|first1=David|last1=Klepper|work=[[Associated Press]]|date=March 5, 2022|accessdate=March 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306005127/https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-kyiv-technology-misinformation-5e884b85f8dbb54d16f5f10d105fe850|archive-date=March 6, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/02/26/world/volodymyr-zelenskyy-wartime-president/|title=Ukraine's TV comedian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy finds his role as wartime leader|first1=Marc|last1=Champion|first2=Daryna|last2=Krasnolutska|date=26 February 2022|accessdate=March 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220226123724/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/02/26/world/volodymyr-zelenskyy-wartime-president/|archive-date=26 February 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
▲*On 6 March 2022, TASS made unsubstantiated claims that Ukraine was making a nuclear [[dirty bomb]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Russia, without evidence, says Ukraine making nuclear "dirty bomb"|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-without-evidence-says-ukraine-making-nuclear-dirty-bomb-2022-03-06/|date=6 March 2022|access-date=6 March 2022|publisher=Reuters}}</ref>
 
▲*In March 2022 TASS published unsubstantiated claims that "Ukrainian nationalists" were responsible for Ukrainian civilians not being able to leave the city of [[Mariupol]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: nationalists take away school buses intended for refugees|url=https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/14032373|date=11 March 2022|access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Military operation in Ukraine.|url=https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/14032183|date=11 March 2022|access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref> while the city was besieged and bombed by the Russian military.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mariupol residents suffer as Russian forces lay siege|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/3/8/photos-residents-suffer-in-besieged-city-of-mariupol-ukraine-russia-war|date=8 March 2022|access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Mariupol says children's hospital destroyed by Russian bombing|newspaper=National Post|url=https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/mariupol-says-childrens-hospital-destroyed-by-russian-bombing|date=9 March 2022|access-date=11 March 2022}}</ref>
 
==Directors of TASS ==
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* Lev Spiridonov (1990–91)
* [[Vitaly Ignatenko]] (1991–2012)
* Sergei Mikhailov (2012–present2012–2023)
* Andrey Kondrashov (2023–present)<ref name=kondrashov />
 
==Notable journalists==
* [[Ștefan Foriș]], Romanian communist correspondent
* [[Vsevolod Kukushkin]], ice hockey and sports correspondent (22 years)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chitaem-vmeste.ru/zvyozdy/interviews/vsevolod-kukushkin-u-kazhdogo-igroka-est-svoe-mesto-v-istorii-hokkeya|title=Всеволод Кукушкин: "У каждого игрока есть свое место в истории хоккея"|date=1 March 2018|website=chitaem-vmeste.ru|language=ru|access-date=14 August 2019|archive-date=22 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522201538/http://chitaem-vmeste.ru/zvyozdy/interviews/vsevolod-kukushkin-u-kazhdogo-igroka-est-svoe-mesto-v-istorii-hokkeya|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
== See also ==
{{Portal|Journalism|Russia|Soviet Union}}
* [[Propaganda in the RussianSoviet FederationUnion]]
* [[Eastern Bloc media and propaganda]]
* ''[[Itar-Tass Russian News Agency v. Russian Kurier, Inc.]]''
 
== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [{{Official Website|http://tass.comru/}} Official English{{lang website]in|ru}}
* {{Official Website|https://tass.com/}} {{lang in|en}}
* [http://tass.ru/ Official Russian website]
 
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