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
Basilica News Agency Basilica News Agency Basilica News Agency is a media institution in Romania. Basilica News Agency is the official online news service of the Romanian Patriarchate, as part of the BASILICA Press Centre – The Communication and PR Department of the Patriarchal Administration. The official website of the Basilica News Agency of the Romanian Orthodox Church is http://www.basilica.ro. Basilica News Agency was founded as a department on 27 October 2007. The official website was launched on 16 June 2008. The event took place in Europa Christiana (Christian Europe) Hall of the Palace of the Patriarchate in Bucharest. The ceremony was opened