TASS (, "Soobshchyeniye TASS"). TASS included affiliated news agencies in all 14 Soviet republics in addition to Russia: RATAU (Ukrainian SSR, now Ukrinform), BelTA (Byelorussian SSR), ETA (Estonian SSR), Latinform (Latvian SSR, now LETA), ELTA (Lithuanian SSR), ATEM (Moldavian SSR, now Moldpres), Armenpress (Armenian SSR), Gruzinform (Georgian SSR), Azerinform (Azerbaijan SSR, now AZERTAC), UzTAG (Uzbek SSR, now UzA), KazTAG (Kazakh SSR, now Kazinform), KyrTAG (Kyrgyz SSR, now Kabar), Turkmeninform (Turkmen SSR, now TDH) and TajikTA (Tajik SSR, now Khovar). Over the history other affiliates existed, e.g. KarelfinTAG for the Karelo-Finnish SSR. TASS news and photos were received by 4,000 Soviet newspapers,
Abkhazian Network News Agency Abkhazian Network News Agency Abkhazian Network News Agency (more commonly known as ANNA News) is an Abkhazian news agency. ANNA was officially registered as mass media in the Republic of Abkhazia on 18 July 2011. It was founded, and was led until his death in 2018 by Marat Musin, a specialist in financial intelligence who lectured at Moscow State University and taught at the . It has been labelled by Western media as pro-Kremlin. ANNA publishes news in the Russian language and is known for sending war reporters to places like Syria, where they filmed embedded with the Syrian Arab