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29-463: After the creation of Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union in 1925, it remained the news agency of Soviet Russia. Its name was associated with Rosta windows ( Russian : Окна Роста , Okna Rosta ). In 1904, Minister of Finance Vladimir Nikolaevich Kokovtsov argued for a state telegraph news agency by saying that private owners were not reliable. In July 1904, at a meeting of special departments,

58-454: 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 (Russian: Телеграфное агентство связи и сообщения , romanized : Telegrafnoye agentstvo svazi i soobshcheniya ). The agency as a whole was referred to as "ITAR-TASS". In September 2014,

87-482: A delegation in a poster issued by the Russian Telegraph Agency (Glavpolitprosvet). They were shown laughing and planning to bring the return of the monarchy. After the failure of Bruce Lockhart— Sidney Reilly conspiracy to assassinate Vladimir Lenin , Noulens left Russia. In 1919 he became President of an international association of creditors of Russia, which agitated against diplomatic recognition of

116-469: A poster in 1921 satirising a French delegation led by Joseph Noulens . The design featured graphical simplicity suitable for viewing from distance and often used lubok -styled sequences of pictures according to some plot, similar to modern comics . The posters were not printed but rather painted with cut-out stencils made from cardboard. Once the required number of posters was painted, the stencils were sent to another city and put in circulation throughout

145-473: 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. 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

174-665: A vector for Soviet active measures . In January 1992, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union , a Presidential Decree signed by Boris Yeltsin re-defined the status of TASS and renamed it the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia . In May 1994, the Russian Government adopted a resolution " On approval of the Charter of the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia ", under which it operates as

203-559: 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. TASS is registered as a Federal State Unitary Enterprise , owned by the government of Russia . 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". In

232-495: Is headquartered in a building in the Soviet 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. TASS has been cited as a source of disinformation as part of Russian influence operations . As of March 2022, examples of propagation of disinformation in relation to

261-493: The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine are as follows: Joseph Noulens Joseph Noulens (29 March 1864 – 9 September 1944) was a French politician and diplomat. Noulens became a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1903 and served as Minister of War from 1913 to 1914 and then as Minister of Finance from 1914 to 1915. In 1920 he became a Senator . In June 1917 he was appointed French ambassador to Russia . Following

290-573: The October Revolution , he worked with White Guards to undermine the Bolshevik regime. In 1918 he proposed a two-tier operation to stabilise the economy of regime set up by General Yevgeny Miller in North Russia. The scheme involved a loan of 15 million rubles, set against a lien of 20 million rubles worth of sawn wood. The second phase involved issuing 200 million rubles in back notes backed by

319-666: 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

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348-856: The Press Bureau under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee”. The new agency was named the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA) under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. The technical base of ROSTA was made up of the structures of the Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA) and private news agencies. The resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR required all media to reprint

377-540: The RSFSR, ROSTA was liquidated, and its functions were transferred to TASS . In addition to disseminating information via telegraph channels, ROSTA in 1918-1920 printed its own publications: the newspaper “AgitROSTA", the magazines "Krasnaya Zvezda” and “Red Journalist”, which were published once or twice a week, as well as large-circulated newspapers. Rosta windows or satirical Rosta windows ( Russian : Окна сатиры Роста , Okna satiry Rosta ) were stencil -replicated propaganda posters created by artists and poets within

406-800: The Rosta system, under the supervision of the Chief Committee of Political Education during 1919–21. Inheriting the Russian design traditions of lubok and rayok , the main topics were current political events. They were usually displayed in windows, hence the name. The first Rosta window was created in Moscow by Mikhail Cheremnykh (1890-1962). He was soon joined by Vladimir Mayakovsky , a popular and prolific author, Dmitry Moor (1883-1946), Amshey Nurenberg (1887-1979), Alexander Rodchenko , Mikhail Volpin and others. Similar projects were performed in other Soviet cities. Cheremnykh and Mayakovsky, for example, produced

435-545: The Russian Telegraph to supply the capital and provincial periodicals with new information as quickly as possible. The agency then changed its addresses to Armenian Lane in 1923. After the creation of the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) on July 10, 1925, ROSTA functioned as the news agency of the RSFSR. In March 1935, by decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of

464-848: The Soviet Union, and manage the news agencies of the Soviet republics". Official state information was delivered as the TASS Report (Russian: Сообщение ТАСС , Soobshchyeniye TASS ). TASS included affiliated news agencies in all 14 (in 1940–56, 15) Soviet republics in addition to Russia: RATAU ( Ukrainian SSR , now Ukrinform ), 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 UzA ), KazTAG ( Kazakh SSR , now Kazinform ), KyrTAG ( Kyrgyz SSR , now Kabar ), Turkmeninform ( Turkmen SSR , now TDH ) and TajikTA ( Tajik SSR , now Khovar ). Over

493-599: The Soviet Union. During the World War II , this approach was reproduced in Tass windows by Kukryniksy . This Soviet Union –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an art or artists' organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union The Russian News Agency TASS , or simply TASS ,

522-626: The Soviet period, it was named the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union ( Телеграфное агентство Советского Союза , Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza ) and was the central agency of the 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) ( Информационное телеграфное агентство России (ИТАР-ТАСС) , informatsionnoye telegrafnoye agentstvo Rossii (ITAR-TASS) ) in 1992, but reverted to

551-627: The agency reverted to its former name as the Russian News Agency TASS . 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. TASS multi-media press center is a communication floor in the heart of Moscow. Every year it hosts some 300 events featuring high-ranking Russian officials, foreign heads of state, leaders of main political parties, representatives of

580-469: The allies at a rate of 10 - 1 to the dollar. (i.e. 20 million dollars). However, as the security against this was to be $ 25million worth of concessions from the Russian forestry industry, concern about the instability of the regime led to an alternative plan involving the creation of a currency board being adopted. this had been devised by John Maynard Keynes . He was depicted with two other French members of

609-563: The decrees of the Soviet government and the latest news received through ROSTA channels. It moved first to Metropol Hotel , Moscow , and then to a separate building on Milyutinsky Lane. On 23 December, Belarusian Branch of the Russian Telegraph Agency (BELOTROSTA) was opened on Zakharyevskaya street in Minsk . On 12 December 1920, the agency was subordinated to Glavpolitprosvet . In 1919, agency had only 42 branches, and then by 1922 there were already 474 branches and correspondent offices. This allowed

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638-404: The history other affiliates existed, e.g. KarelfinTAG for the short-lived Karelo-Finnish SSR (1940–56). 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 sensitive news would be compiled into

667-497: The leadership of Leonid Stark . He transmitted the first reports about the revolution in Russia to all newspapers in the world. On 18 November 1917, Council of People's Commissars decreed that the Petrograd Telegraph Agency will be the central information body. On 7 September 1918, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee adopted the “Resolution on the merger of the Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA) and

696-567: 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 changed 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 St. Petersburg was renamed Petrograd, SPTA

725-465: The project for creating a state telegraph agency was approved. On 1 September 1904, the agency started its work. The agency was located in Petrograd before the revolution. During World War I , the agency changed its name from St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency (SPTA) to Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA). During the October Revolution , Petrograd Telegraph Agency's building was occupied by Baltic sailors under

754-557: 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". 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

783-400: The world of arts and culture, scientists and sporting personalities as well as managers of Russian and foreign business enterprises. TASS press centers also operate in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk. TASS is a media partner of high-profile conferences, forums and exhibitions in Russia and abroad. The agency organized the first News Agencies World Congress (NAWC) in 2004. TASS

812-650: Was frequently used as a front organization by the Soviet intelligence agencies, such as the NKVD (later KGB ) and Main Intelligence Directorate , with TASS employees serving as informants abroad. In 1959, Alexander Alexeyev was dispatched to Cuba on a fact-finding mission, ostensibly working for TASS. 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." TASS frequently served as

841-738: 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 Soviet Russian Council of People's Commissars . On 7 September 1918, the presidium renamed PTA and the Press bureau into the Russian Telegraph Agency ( ROSTA ), which became "the central information agency of the whole Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic". In July 1925,

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