Broadcasting in the Soviet Union news and television news was provided almost entirely by the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, commonly known as TASS until 1991. Under the rule of Emperor Nikolai II, the first broadcasting system began in 1904, and evolved into TASS in 1925. TASS still exists today, transformed into the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS). It occupies a Joseph Stalin-era building in Moscow, characterised by a bas-relief sculpture above the main entrance. However, much like its counterparts in cinema and the press, it has suffered since the break-up of Soviet Union. ITAR now broadcasts domestic news, while TASS reports the
Abkhazian Network News Agency was defaced by the group of Ukrainian hackers, Falcon Flame & Trinity. 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