RIA Novosti - TASS

ITAR-TASS (Russian: Информационное телеграфное агентство России-ИТАР-ТАСС; abbreviation: ITAR-TASS, ITAR-TASS; also transliterated: Itar-TASS) is the largest Russian news agency, one of the five largest news agencies in the world, headquartered in Moscow. ITAR-TASS its predecessor was established on November 18, 1917, the Russian Petrograd News Agency; in 1918, and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the press bureau under the merger, named the Russian News Agency, referred to as Rosta; July 10, 1925 was renamed TASS; January 22, 1992 Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed an order to the TASS with the former Soviet Union, part of the merger of news agencies, the formation of a new state news agency - ITAR-TASS, also known as ITAR-TASS, headquartered in Moscow. On January 22, 1992, Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree merging TASS with a part of the former Soviet news agency to form a new state news agency, Rossiya, while retaining an independent TASS agency within RIA Novosti, which began publishing under the name of RIA Novosti on the 30th day of the same month.