Russian Telegraph Agency were not printed but rather painted with cut-out stencils made from cardboard. Once the required number of posters was painted, the stencils were sent to another city and put in circulation throughout the Soviet Union. During the World War II, this approach was reproduced in Tass windows by Kukryniksy. Russian Telegraph Agency Russian Telegraph Agency (, "Rossiyskoye telegrafnoye agentstvo"), abbr. ROSTA, was the state news agency in Soviet Russia (1918-35). After the creation of Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union in 1925, it remained the news agency of Soviet Russia. Its name was associated with "Rosta windows" (, "Okna Rosta").
Itar-Tass Russian News Agency v. Russian Kurier, Inc. all matters regarding copyright, including the determination of ownership. This ruling quashed the decision of a lower court, which had decided that in a lawsuit between a reporter-cameraman of a US media company operating in France, the US law applied in determining ownership of the footage. Itar-Tass Russian News Agency v. Russian Kurier, Inc. Itar-Tass Russian News Agency v. Russian Kurier, Inc., 153 F.3d 82 (2d Cir. 1998), was a copyright case about the Russian language weekly "Russian Kurier" in New York City that had copied and published various materials from Russian newspapers and news agency reports of Itar-TASS. The