Tass
/tæs/noun
TASS is a Russian state-owned news agency and the former official news agency of the Soviet Union.
Did you know?TASS was established in 1925, but its institutional predecessor dated back to the Russian Telegraph Agency founded in 1902.
Etymological Timeline
1902
Russian
Русское телеграфное агентство (RTА)
“Russian Telegraph Agency, an imperial-era news organization and predecessor of TASS”
1918
Russian
Российское телеграфное агентство (РОСТА)
“Russian Telegraph Agency, reorganized after the Bolshevik Revolution”
1925
Russian
Телеграфное агентство Советского Союза
“Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, formally abbreviated as TASS”
1925–1991
Russian
ТАСС
“The official central news agency of the Soviet Union”
1992
Russian
ИТАР-ТАСС
“Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, the agency’s post-Soviet name”
Modern English
English
TASS
“A Russian news agency, now commonly rendered as TASS News Agency”