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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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| 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>
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| 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-rus|Информационное агентство России ТАСС|Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii TASS}}),}} or simply '''TASS,''', is a Russian [[State media|state-owned]] [[news agency]] founded in 1904. It 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, it has 70 offices in Russia and in the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]] (CIS), "along with 56 global branches in 53 countries".<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 period, it was named the '''Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union''' ({{lang-ru|Телеграфное агентство Советского Союза|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]], it was renamed '''Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS)''' ({{lang-ru|Информационное телеграфное агентство России (ИТАР-ТАСС)|informatsionnoye telegrafnoye agentstvo Rossii (ITAR-TASS)|label=none}}) in 1992, but reverted 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=":0" />
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* [[Eastern Bloc media and propaganda]]
* ''[[Itar-Tass Russian News Agency v. Russian Kurier, Inc.]]''
 
== Notes ==
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== References ==
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* {{Official Website|http://tass.ru/}} {{lang in|ru}}
* {{Official Website|https://tass.com/}} {{lang in|en}}
* [https://t.me/tassagency_en Official Telegram Channel] {{lang in|en}}
 
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