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ITAR-TASS (ИТАР-ТАСС), Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, is the major news agency of Russian Federation.
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History
On September 1 1904 St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency (SPTA) began its operation.
On August 19 1914 Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA) was decreed by the government to become the central news agency of the state.
On September 7 1918 PTA was renamed into Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA).
On July 10 1925 the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) was founded.
TASS included the news agencies of all Soviet republics:
Today, ITAR-TASS has more than 130 bureaus and offices.
Source: http://corp.itar-tass.com/eng/about/history.html
Legal information
According to the Russian law, ITAR-TASS must be quoted when its news reports are distributed by others.