consider whether trivial question: "How to decipher the acronym TASS?"
What is the abbreviation?
This term is derived from the Italian abbreviatura and Latin brevis - short.In the old books and manuscripts of the so-called abbreviated spelling or groups.Today, the abbreviation is any contraction of the words, or combinations thereof.Many of them are clear and familiar to us, because they are widely used in the media and in the available literature.No one doubts deciphering abbreviations university (higher education) or the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union).Are abbreviations which occur only rarely in the literature.Such abbreviations along with their transcript is usually harvested in one chapter Publishing (Abbreviations), or clarify their meaning at the first use in the text of an article or book, such as "efficiency" (Efficiency).
However, there are quite a common abbreviations, which can be properly decipher only when you know the history of their emergence and development.To this acronym refers TASS.
Deciphering the initial appearance of
abbreviations Tass happened in 1925, when on the basis of the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA), an official information center union republic of the RSFSR, was created Telegraph Agency of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (TASS).He was transferred to the exclusive right to disseminate information about events outside the Soviet Union.
The structure of agency organization comprised news agencies were part of the Soviet Union republics: RATA (Ukraine), KazTAG (Kazakhstan), BELTA (Byelorussia), UzTAG (Uzbekistan), Gruzinform (Georgia), ATEM (Moldova), Azerinform (Azerbaijan) and ELTA(Lithuania), Latinform (Latvia), KyrTAG (Kyrgyzstan), TadzhikTA (Tajikistan), Armenpress (Armenia), TURKMENinform (Turkmenistan), ETA (Estonia), as well as KarelfinTAG (in the period 1940-1956.).However, they were engaged in the dissemination of information only within their territorial entities.
In the period from 1945 to 1991 can be no doubt that our citizens will answer the question: "How stands Tass?" It was just like two plus two - four.Many citizens of both the Soviet Union and beyond is firmly etched in the memory of a resounding and memorable word Tass, deciphering acronyms which was clear and understandable to all - Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union.After all, so often on radio and television sounded phrase: "TASS is authorized to declare ...»
This agency was among the largest data centers in the world.It consisted of 682 correspondents in the country and more than 90 offices abroad, around the world to work more than two thousand journalists and photojournalists TASS.
new name
In January 1992, in connection with the withdrawal from the world political arena of the Soviet Union, on the basis of the agency Tass was formed Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS).Abbreviation This also included the reduction of the former.The Soviet Union no longer existed.How now to be understood a word Tass?Decryption now means "Telegraph Agency of sovereign states."The former acronym has been retained in the new name because the popular brand recognizable and credibility around the world, as well as directly associated with Russia.It does not matter, in the Soviet Union it was or not.
In addition, a media center with a new name actually was the legal successor of the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, which was enshrined in the decree of the Russian President Boris Yeltsin on December 22, 1993 № 2257.
But today is not even oneRussia to correctly answer the question: "What is the Itar-Tass?Explanation of abbreviations looks like? »
Brief description of the ITAR-TASS
Until recently, it was the largest Russian news agency, part of the elite of the world's media center on a par with Reuters, Associated Press and Agence France-Presse.Its services covered the events in real time.The news flow from the agency acted in Russian, English, Spanish, German, French and Arabic.Political, economic, social, cultural and sporting aspects of life in Russia and the world covered approximately 200 of its periodic information products.
Since 1995, the ITAR-TASS news published uniform and another 34 operating tapes, reflecting comprehensive news in Russia and the world in which every day is transmitted up to 650 messages.The total amount of information transmitted is equivalent to 300 newspaper pages a day.
Agency is the largest in Russia historical fotofondom (more than a million photographs and negatives), which is regularly updated with thousands of digital photos.At his disposal it has a unique information resource fund, electronic data bank, specialized database of economic and other fields of knowledge of information, containing millions of documents.
The information network ITAR-TASS includes 42 regional centers and correspondents in Russia.Only 75 foreign missions the agency has more than 500 correspondents.
Bringing information that the media center is carried out up to several thousand collective subscribers in Russia and abroad, including more than a thousand of the media, a lot of institutions, libraries, scientific and educational organizations.
return to the past
in March 2014 at a meeting of the organizing committee on preparation for the 110th anniversary of the agency, it was announced that the paneer his return to the old name - TASS.Explanation of course, must change, because the Soviet Union as a state, no longer exists.The initiative has received unanimous support.It was noted that the decision will be made after the approval of changing the name of the founder of the agency - the Government of the Russian Federation.
From history Tass
"But why did 110 years?"- You ask.A word Tass appeared in 1925.In fact, the beginning of its history the agency conducts with the emergence in 1904 of the St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency (SPTA), renamed in 1914 in Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA) and lasted until 1918.It is on this basis has been created GROWTH, already mentioned in this article.
TASS - deciphering abbreviations today
In 2013, liquidated RIA "News" (on its base formed agency "Russia Today", which broadcasts abroad).ITAR-TASS has become the only state news agency in Russia.In September 2014 began the transition to the ITAR-TASS still brand - TASS.Explanation of modern abbreviations in full form now looks like a "Russian news agency TASS» / «Russian news agency TASS».Going to be completed by the end of 2015.
already used the new logo the agency in obtaining information tapes, publications, website and others.
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