TASS TASS Russian News Agency TASS (), abbr. TASS () is a major news agency in Russia, founded in 1904. TASS is the largest Russian news agency and one of the largest news agencies worldwide, along with Reuters, the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP). TASS is registered as a Federal State Unitary Enterprise, owned by the Government of Russia. Headquartered in Moscow, TASS has 70 offices in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), as well as 68 bureaus around the world. The TASS name comes from the former Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (, "Tyelyegrafnoye
Firat News Agency Firat News Agency Firat News Agency, (, ), is a PKK-affiliated news agency that gathers and broadcast news from the Middle-East. The news agency have offices in Amsterdam and journalists around the world. Access to its websites from Turkey has been repeatedly blocked by Turkish courts, and its journalists have been arrested both by Turkey and the European Union countries due to its link to the PKK. According to the Turkish sources, the news agency is funded and operated by the PKK and its supporters. In 2016, one of its journalists, Maxime Azadi, was arrested in Brussels which was issued