TASS After 1971, TASS was elevated to the status of State Committee at the Government of the Soviet Union. The agency was frequently used as a front organization by the Soviet intelligence agencies, such as the NKVD (later KGB) and Main Intelligence Directorate, with TASS employees serving as informants. In 1959, Alexander Alexeyev was dispatched to Cuba on a fact-finding mission, ostensibly working for TASS. In January 1992, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a Presidential Decree signed by Boris Yeltsin re-defined status of TASS and renamed it the "Information Telegraph Agency of Russia". In May 1994 The Russian Government
Abkhazian Network News Agency Abkhazian Network News Agency Abkhazian Network News Agency (more commonly known as ANNA News) is an Abkhazian news agency. ANNA was officially registered as mass media in the Republic of Abkhazia on 18 July 2011. It was founded, and was led until his death in 2018 by Marat Musin, a specialist in financial intelligence who lectured at Moscow State University and taught at the . It has been labelled by Western media as pro-Kremlin. ANNA publishes news in the Russian language and is known for sending war reporters to places like Syria, where they filmed embedded with the Syrian Arab