The official news agency of the Soviet Union
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Russian News Agency TASS - Wikipedia  Russian News Agency TASS abbr. TASS, word Tass (Russian: , ) is a major news agency in Russia, founded in 1902. Tass is the largest Russian news agency, and the fourth largest in the world after Reuters, the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP). Tass is owned by the Government of Russia.
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TASS Russian News Agency  On September 7, 1918 the government presidium resolved to rename PTA and the ... The news agency was named the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia...
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TASS (USSR) | Article about TASS (USSR) by The Free Dictionary  (TASS; full title, Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union of the Council of Ministers of the USSR), the central news organ of the USSR. TASS collects official and...
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TASS takes Russia's oldest news service back to the USSR - LA Times  Oct 1, 2014 ... Russia's oldest news agency reverts to Soviet-era name, claims the ... the government-run news service amended its name to Petrograd News...
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ITAR-TASS | Russian news agency | Britannica.com  Renamed TASS in 1925, the organization was the official news agency of the Soviet Union until 1991. It also was one of the world's major international wire...
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Guide to Russian Government Publications  This changed after 1991, with publications initially focusing on the Russian ... Also, Soviet official publications were produced as mouthpieces of the ..... is the official daily (except Mondays) news publication of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR that was published beginning in 1956 until the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
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Izvestia - definition of Izvestia in English | Oxford Dictionaries  a Russian daily newspaper founded in 1917 as the official... Meaning, pronunciation, example sentences, and more from Oxford Dictionaries.
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Russia's Purveyor of 'Truth', Pravda, Dies After 84 Years - The New ...  Jul 31, 1996 ... Lies were the special talent of the Soviet leadership, and as its official ... of Pravda, the former official newspaper of the Soviet Communist Party, ... did not accept advertising, it did print ads during the Soviet Union's brief...
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propaganda facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Communication techniques have been employed by government agents to cultivate ..... Creel himself spoke excitedly about using the committee to spread the "gospel of .... The agency's most famous form of anti-Soviet propaganda came in the form of ... attention on psychological warfare as a mysterious Cold War weapon.
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Russia's Purveyor of 'Truth', Pravda, Dies After 84 Years - The New ...  Jul 31, 1996 ... There is little call left in this country for a newspaper that devotes its pages, ... "There is no news in Pravda and no truth in Izvestia," was one of Soviet life's more ... Izvestia, which means news, has sloughed off its past, embraced the market ... 30, 1922, describing the origins of what would become the largest...
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THE MEDIA BUSINESS - Izvestia Opens Pages to 'Parasites ...  Jan 4, 1989 ... ''Now you have the opportunity to get better acquainted with industrial France.'' ... on page 5 of tonight's issue of Izvestia, the Soviet Government daily newspaper. ... to what Lenin called capitalist parasites at the rate of $50,000 a page ... to present themselves to these managers, to make a first impression.''.
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Xinhua News Agency - Wikipedia  The Xinhua News Agency is the official press agency of the People's Republic of China. Xinhua is the biggest and most influential media organization in China. Xinhua is a ministry-level institution subordinate to the Chinese central government. Its president is a member of the Central Committee of China's Communist Party. ... The Xinhua press agency was started in November 1931 as the Red China...
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List of leaders of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia  Under the 1977 Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the Chairman of the Council of Ministers was the head of government and the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was the head of state. .... Yuri Andropov succeeded Brezhnev in his post as General Secretary in 1982. He was 68...
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Voice of America - Wikipedia  Voice of America (VOA) is a United States government-funded multimedia news source and the official external broadcasting institution of the United States. VOA provides programming for broadcast on radio, television, and the .... In 1947, VOA started broadcasting to the Soviet citizens in Russia under the pretext of...
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Russian News Agency TASS - Wikipedia  Russian News Agency TASS abbr. TASS, word Tass (Russian: , ) is a major news agency in Russia, founded in ... On July 10, 1925 the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) was founded and took over the ... The Tass acronym was, by this point, well-recognised around the world and so was retained after...
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KGB - Wikipedia  The KGB, an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991. Formed in 1954, as a direct successor of such preceding agencies as the ... The agent then substantiated his or her legend by living it in a foreign ..... Znak15 OGPU.GIF.
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Xinhua News Agency | Chinese news agency | Britannica.com  News agency of China, founded in 1931 as the press outlet of the Chinese Communist Party. It was first set up in the Red ... political party of China. Since the...
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American journalist Nicholas Daniloff, held in the Soviet Union ...  Sep 29, 1986 ... 'I was arrested without a warrant with a narrow political purpose. ... assignment in Moscow this month, was held 14 days in a Soviet jail after his arrest. ... The arrest threatened U.S.-Soviet relations just as the governments were trying ... Zakharov, a physicist at a U.N. research and development agency, was...
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Russian News Agency TASS - Wikipedia  Russian News Agency TASS abbr. TASS, word Tass (Russian: , ) is ... In January 1992, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, ... changed its name to the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia.
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Laszlo Dosa: America Jamming Itself  In the early months of WWII, on February 24, 1942, a new radio station went on the air ... the station began its first shortwave international broadcast in German, saying, ... The news may be good. The news may be bad. We shall tell you the truth. ... Iliff said he presumed that the Chinese would learn about VOA's new plans...
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Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ...  The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union abbreviated in Russian as , "Tse-ka", was de jure the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) .... The Central Committee, according to Lenin, was to be the supreme authority of the party. Leon Trotsky criticised this view, stating...