ITAR-TASS was the successor to the Soviet TASS news agency, whose origins date back to 1904. Concerned that false reports were being circulated abroad about Russia’s economic state, Emperor Nikolai II...

ITAR-TASS was the successor to the Soviet TASS news agency, whose origins date back to 1904. Concerned that false reports were being circulated abroad about Russia’s economic state, Emperor Nikolai II gave the go-ahead on July 21, 1904, to establish the St.