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
Vietnam News Agency “State news bank”, the VNA performs its function as the State news agency and provides official and mainstream news for its partners at home and abroad via seven units and with nearly 30 news products of the following kinds: Domestic News Department: with a network of the 63 bureaus in cities and provinces nationwide, the department updates daily current events covering politics, diplomacy, socio-culture, science-technology and the environment, particularly the Party and State’s guidelines and policies. It is also responsible for correcting wrongful information in the public domain. • Domestic news (continuously updated on the web portal news.vnanet.vn) • Internal