TASS became "the central information agency of the whole Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic". In July 1925 the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union ("Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza", TASS) was established by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, and took over the duties of the ROSTA as the country's central information agency. TASS enjoyed "exclusive right to gather and distribute information outside the Soviet Union, as well as the right to distribute foreign and domestic information within the Soviet Union, and manage the news agencies of the Soviet republics". Official state information was delivered as the "TASS Report"
Cyprus News Agency Cyprus News Agency The Cyprus News Agency (Greek: "Κυπριακό Πρακτορείο Ειδήσεων"；Turkish: "Kıbrıs Haber Ajansı"), or CNA is the major news agency in Cyprus. CNA currently has commercial agreements with Reuters, AFP, ITAR-TASS, RIA NOVOSTI and MENA and cooperation agreements with ANA, SANA, XINHUA, ANSA, IRNA, PAP, APS and ATA. CNA also exchanges news with the Macedonian Press Agency (Thessaloniki), BTA, STA, KYODO and ROMPRES. The Cyprus News Agency was officially established on February 16, 1976 at the initiative of the then Director General of the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) Andreas Christofides, who saw the need for a national news agency