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,
Kabar (news agency) agency signed a cooperation agreement with Trend International News Agency of Azerbaijan on 8 November 2013. Kabar is a member of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA). Kabar (news agency) Kabar or Kyrgyz National News Agency Kabar is the official news agency of Kyrgyzstan. It is the oldest news agency in the country. The agency was launched in 1937 under the name of KyrTAG which became a state-run news agency and was renamed as KyrgyzKabar in 1992. Three years later it was named as the Kyrgyz National Agency for Telecommunications and Information Administration Kabar. In 2001, it was renamed