It was renamed the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA) in 1918. In 1925 the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) was founded to replace ROSTA. TASS was known across the globe as the Soviet ...

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.

In Russian Tass stands for Telegraf-noye agentsvo SSSR—Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union. But to the long-suffering West it has come to spell espionage. Since the end of World War II Tass ...