The Russian News Agency "TASS" (Russian: Информационное агентство России "ТАСС", Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii TASS), abbr. TASS (Russian: ТАСС), is a major news agency in Russia, founded in 1902. Tass is owned by the government of Russia.[1]
Headquartered in Moscow, the agency has 70 offices in Russia and CIS, as well as 68 bureaus around the world.