"Information and censors most national and foreign news. It falls under the News and Periodicals Enterprise, along with three major newspapers. The agency uses feeds from Reuters and the Press Trust of India. The MNA has news exchange agreements with international news agencies, including Xinhua, ITAR-TASS, Yonhap, Kyodo, Tanjug, ANTARA, KPL and VNA. Myanmar News Agency The Myanmar News Agency (; abbreviated MNA) is the official state news agency of the Myanmar government, based in Yangon, Burma. It was established in 1963 after the 1962 Burmese coup d'état as News Agency Burma (NAB). It is currently under the News and"
"Ministry of Communications (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Communications of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) () was the central state administration body on communications in the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1991. It had authority over the postal, telegraph and telephone communications as well as public radio, technical means of radio and television broadcasting, and the distribution of periodicals in the country. The Ministry of Communications of the USSR was established on 15 March 1946, replacing the People's Commissariat for Communications of the USSR (formerly People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR). It was originally set"
"headed by the USSR, reorganized itself as the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) in 1947, an institution which attempted to restore the centralized dissemination of news, ideas, and political activities under a new banner. The Cominform also had its official organ, the weekly newspaper ""For a Lasting Peace, for a People's Democracy,"" which closely paralleled the earlier Comintern magazine in function if not form. This newspaper remained in production until 1956, when the so-called ""Secret Speech"" of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev led to a restructuring of the world Communist movement which ended the Cominform. A new effort at joint international activity"
"Izvestia Izvestia () is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Russia. It was a newspaper of record in the Soviet Union from 1917 until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. The word ""izvestiya"" in Russian means ""delivered messages"", derived from the verb ""izveshchat"" (""to inform"", ""to notify""). In the context of newspapers it is usually translated as ""news"" or ""reports"". The newspaper began as the ""News of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers Deputies"" on in Petrograd. Initially, the paper expressed Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionary Party views. In August 1917, it took the title ""News of the Central Executive Committee of the"
"was conducting from Sverdlovsk (today Yekaterinburg) until 1943 when it was moved to Kuibyshev (today Samara) until 1945. The fall of Kiev was never announced by the Soviet Information Bureau. Soviet Information Bureau Soviet Information Bureau ( [""Sovetskoye informatsionnoye byuro""], commonly known as Sovinformburo [Совинформбюро]) was a leading Soviet news agency, operating from 1941 to 1961. It was established on June 24, 1941, shortly after the opening of the Eastern Front of World War II by a directive of Sovnarkom and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ""to bring into the limelight international events, military"
"Ukrinform The National News Agency of Ukraine () or Ukrinform () is a state information and news agency of Ukraine. It was founded in 1918 during the Ukrainian War of Independence as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press (BUP). The first director of the agency was Dmytro Dontsov. The state agency was established as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press (BUP) in 1918, yet since then it went through series of reorganizations. During the Soviet period, it was associated with Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS). Ukrinform main objectives are: the coverage of public policy and public life in Ukraine and"
"were used in the postal system of the Soviet Union. The Ministry was terminated on 26 December 1991 due to the abolition of the Soviet Union. All Ministry assets, premises and other facilities in the territory of the Russian Federation were delegated to the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation. The Ministry included two major departments: Over the years, the Ministry was headed by Ministers of Communications of the USSR as follows: Under the auspices of the USSR Ministry of Communications and Soyuzpechat, the following periodicals and publications were issued: Ministry of Communications (Soviet Union) The Ministry of Communications"
"indivisible. According to the agency, it was partially government-subsidized (2.7–2.9 billion roubles in 2013), but maintained full editorial independence. Its Russian name was Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Agency of International Information «RIA Novosti» (), ""FGUP RAMI «RIA Novosti»"" () for short. Its formal English name was Russian News & Information Agency ""RIA Novosti"". Early in 1990s it had the name state enterprise RIA «Novosti» (named after Soviet ""Press Agency «Novosti»"" and ""Information Agency «Novosti»""). ""RIA"" means ""Russian Information Agency"" and ""Novosti"" means ""News"" in Russian. The common abbreviation in Russian is RIA. RIA Novosti's history dates back to June"
"RIA Novosti RIA Novosti (), sometimes RIA () for short, was Russia's international news agency until 2013 and continues to be the name of a state-operated domestic Russian-language news agency. Operating under the purview of the Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, RIA Novosti is headquartered in Moscow and operated about 80 bureaus internationally. On 9 December 2013 President of Russia Vladimir Putin ordered RIA Novosti's liquidation and the creation of a Russian international news agency Rossiya Segodnya. Dmitry Kiselev, an anchorman of the Russia-1 channel was appointed to be the first president of the new information agency. RIA"
"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""). Rosta windows or satirical Rosta windows (, ""Okna satiry Rosta"") were stencil-replicated propaganda posters created by artists and poets within the Rosta system, under the supervision of the Chief Committee of Political Education during 1919-21. Inheriting the Russian design traditions of lubok and rayok, the main topics were current"
"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"
"""On the Establishment of the Information Agency Novosti,"" the Information Agency Novosti (IAN) succeeded APN on July 27, 1990. ""To provide information support for the USSR's state domestic and foreign policies and proceeding from the interests of the democratization of the mass media,"" the Novosti Press Agency was renamed the Information Agency Novosti (IAN). IAN's tasks remained the same – preparing and publishing printed, TV and radio materials in the USSR and abroad; studying public opinion on Soviet foreign and domestic policies in the USSR and abroad."" A computer databank was created in the Agency. Initially, it contained over 250,000"
"Soviet Information Bureau Soviet Information Bureau ( [""Sovetskoye informatsionnoye byuro""], commonly known as Sovinformburo [Совинформбюро]) was a leading Soviet news agency, operating from 1941 to 1961. It was established on June 24, 1941, shortly after the opening of the Eastern Front of World War II by a directive of Sovnarkom and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ""to bring into the limelight international events, military developments, and day-to-day life through printed and broadcast media."" During the war, Sovinformburo directed the activity of the All-Slavonic Committee, Anti-Fascist Committee of Soviet Women, Anti-Fascist Committee of the Soviet"
"the USSR. The full name was ""Izvestiya Sovetov Narodnykh Deputatov SSSR"" (in Russian, ""Известия Советов народных депутатов СССР"", the ""Reports of Soviets of Peoples' Deputies of the USSR""). Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, ""Izvestia"" now describes itself as a ""national"" newspaper of Russia. The newspaper was owned by a vast holding company of Vladimir Potanin which had close ties with the government. A controlling stake in ""Izvestia"" was purchased by state-owned Gazprom on 3 June 2005, and included in the Gazprom Media holding. According to the allegations of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Raf Shakirov, editor-in-chief of ""Izvestia"","
"Pravda Pravda (, ""Truth"") is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, formerly the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million. The newspaper began publication on 5 May 1912 in the Russian Empire, but was already extant abroad in January 1911. It emerged as a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union after the October Revolution. The newspaper was an organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1912 and 1991. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, ""Pravda"" was"
"and Arabic). Channel is transmitted live on website and in television. Ukrinform The National News Agency of Ukraine () or Ukrinform () is a state information and news agency of Ukraine. It was founded in 1918 during the Ukrainian War of Independence as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press (BUP). The first director of the agency was Dmytro Dontsov. The state agency was established as the Bureau of Ukrainian Press (BUP) in 1918, yet since then it went through series of reorganizations. During the Soviet period, it was associated with Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS). Ukrinform main objectives are:"
"KGB The KGB (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, ), translated in English as Committee for State Security, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991. As a direct successor of such preceding agencies as Cheka, NKGB, NKVD and MGB, the committee was attached to the Council of Ministers. It was the chief government agency of ""union-republican jurisdiction"", acting as internal security, intelligence and secret police. Similar agencies were constituted in each of the republics of the Soviet Union aside from Russia, and consisted of many ministries, state committees and state commissions. The agency was"
"People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR was the central organ of the Soviet Union government that was in charge of the organisation and administration of the different forms of communication including posts. It existed between 1923 and 1932. In 1922, the Soviet Union was formed. Its founding document stated that, among different areas, ""jurisdiction of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as represented by its supreme bodies shall be"": The same document defined that ""the Executive Body of the Central Executive Committee of the Union is the Council"
"Mikhail Gorbachev dismantled the KGB into several independent departments. One of them became the Committee on Government Communications under the President of Soviet Union. On December 24, 1991 after the disbanding of the Soviet Union the organization became the Federal Agency of Government Communications and Information under the President of Russian Federation. On March 11, 2003 the agency was reorganized into the Service of Special Communications and Information (""Spetssvyaz"", ""Spetssviaz"") () of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB RF). On August 7, 2004, ""Spetssviaz"" was incorporated as a structural sub unit of the Federal Protective Service of"
"(, ""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,"
"became ""the central information agency of the whole Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic"". In July 1925 the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (""Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza"", TASS) was established by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, and took over the duties of the ROSTA as the country's central information agency. TASS enjoyed ""exclusive right to gather and distribute information outside the Soviet Union, as well as the right to distribute foreign and domestic information within the Soviet Union, and manage the news agencies of the Soviet republics"". Official state information was delivered as the ""TASS Report"""
"agyentstvo Sovyetskovo Soyuza"") which was the central agency for news collection and distribution for all Soviet newspapers, radio and television stations. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the agency was renamed ""Information Telegraph Agency of Russia"" (ITAR-TASS) in 1992, but regained the simpler TASS name in 2014. The origin of TASS dates back to December 1902 when it began operations as the Commercial Telegraph Agency (TTA, Torgovo-Telegrafnoe Agentstvo) under the Ministry of Finance, with Torgovo-Promyshlennaya Gazeta's staff being the main supplier of journalists. As the demand for non-business began during the first battles of the Russo-Japanese War in February"
"the Soviet people against Nazism and in the post-war years about the main areas of Soviet domestic and foreign policies. Sovinformburo heads included A.S. Shcherbakov (1941–45), S. A. Lozovsky (1945–48) and Y.S. Khavinson, D.A. Polikarpov. In 1961, the Novosti Press Agency (APN) succeeded Sovinformburo. It became the leading information and press body of Soviet public organizations. The constituent conference was held on February 21, 1961. The conference of representatives of Soviet public organizations adopted a decision to create a press agency of public organizations named Novosti. The agency's guiding body was the Council of the Agency’s Founders. The APN founders"
"Russian Soviet Government Bureau The Russian Soviet Government Bureau (1919-1921), sometimes known as the ""Soviet Bureau,"" was an unofficial diplomatic organization established by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the United States during the Russian Civil War. The Soviet Bureau primarily functioned as a trade and information agency of the Soviet government. Suspected of engaging in political subversion, the Soviet Bureau was raided by law enforcement authorities at the behest of the Lusk Committee of the New York State legislature in 1919. The Bureau was terminated early in 1921. Sometime in January 1919 a courier acting on behalf of"
"formally established the CIS. They also ""accepted"" Gorbachev's resignation. While Gorbachev hadn't made any formal plans to leave the scene yet, he did tell CBS News that he would resign as soon as he saw that the CIS was indeed a reality. In a nationally televised speech early in the morning of December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned as president of the USSR – or, as he put it, ""I hereby discontinue my activities at the post of President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics."" He declared the office extinct, and all of its powers (such as control of the"
"collapsed. The KGB was succeeded by the Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK) of Russia, which was succeeded by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB). The republican affiliation offices almost completely duplicated the structural organization of the main KGB. The Chairman of the KGB, First Deputy Chairmen (1–2), Deputy Chairmen (4–6). Its policy Collegium comprised a chairman, deputy chairmen, directorate chiefs, and republican KGB chairmen. KGB The KGB (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, ), translated in English as Committee for State Security, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991. As a direct"
"of the first official issue of ""Pravda"". Pravda Pravda (, ""Truth"") is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, formerly the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million. The newspaper began publication on 5 May 1912 in the Russian Empire, but was already extant abroad in January 1911. It emerged as a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union after the October Revolution. The newspaper was an organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU between 1912 and 1991. After the dissolution of"
"- and its role as ""the bridge between the USSR and the Western world"" - gained ""Moskovskiye Novosti"" widespread popularity. The newspaper was established in 1980 and ceased publication on 1 January 2008. International news agency RIA Novosti relaunched it and ‘’Moscow News’’ in February 2011 in partnership with the Vremya Publishing House, publisher until 2010 of ""Vremya Novostei"" and owner of the ""Moskovskiye Novosti"" title. The paper was to be available in print, web and mobile device app formats. The Moscow city authorities were in March 2014 negotiating to buy the paper for an undisclosed sum from RIA Novosti,"
"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"
"up as an all-Union ministry, and in December 1954 transformed into a Union-Republican one. The Ministry of Communications of the USSR was responsible for the maintenance and further development of all types of communications in general use, and technical means of radio and television broadcasting. It was also in charge of the periodicals distribution as well as the provision of technological progress in the industry, the quality of communication services, and the most complete and continuous needs of the country media and communication services. Additionally, the Ministry was responsible for issuing postage stamps and postal stationery (envelopes, postcards, etc.), which"
"On November 6, 1991, the KGB officially ceased to exist. The FSK was reorganized into the FSB (Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti Rossiyskoi Federatsii (Федера́льная слу́жба безопа́сности Росси́йской Федера́ции) Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) by the Federal Law of April 3, 1995, ""On the Organs of the Federal Security Service in the Russian Federation"", making the new FSB a more powerful organization. Federal Counterintelligence Service The FSK (""Federalnaya Sluzhba Kontrrazvedki"" (""Федера́льная Слу́жба Контрразве́дки""), Federal Counterintelligence Service) was a state security organization, initially of the USSR, and, after its dissolution, of the Russian Federation. The FSK was the successor organization to"
"In some countries, the press provided a significant source of income for the ruling Communist parties. Radio and television was controlled by the state. The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) was the central agency for collection and distribution of internal and international news for all Soviet newspapers, radio and television stations. TASS monopolized the supply of political news. It was frequently infiltrated by Soviet intelligence and security agencies, such as the NKVD and GRU. TASS had affiliates in 14 Soviet republics, including the Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, Estonian SSR, Moldavian SSR. Ukrainian SSR and Byelorussian SSR. Despite outward"
"were the USSR Journalists Union, USSR Writers Union, Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and the Znaniye Society. On April 3, 1961, the Agency charter was adopted. Under its charter, APN's aim was ""to contribute to mutual understanding, trust and friendship among peoples in every possible way by broadly publishing accurate information about the USSR abroad and familiarizing the Soviet public with the life of the peoples of foreign countries."" APN's motto was ""Information for Peace, for the Friendship of Nations"". APN had bureaus in over 120 countries. The Agency published 60 illustrated newspapers"