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 It is the largest multilingual online newspaper in Vietnam, with news presented in Vietnamese, English, Chinese, French and Spanish. VietnamPlus is also one of the websites that has the highest number of source news stories reused by other websites in Vietnam. VNA online portal at news.vnanet.vn: this is the official online portal of the Vietnam News Agency, which continuously updates fresh news and photos in different languages. The website is also a gateway for press agencies and readers to register and subscribe to the VNA’s services and access its abundant publications. As well as the online newspaper VietnamPlus and the