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In July 1904, at a meeting of special departments, the project for creating a state telegraph agency was approved. On 1 September 1904, the agency started its work. The agency was located in Petrograd before the revolution. During World War I, the agency changed its name from St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency (SPTA) to Petrograd Telegraph Agency ...
The Russian News Agency TASS, [a] or simply TASS, is a Russian state-owned news agency founded in 1904. It is the largest Russian news agency and one of the largest news agencies worldwide. [2] TASS is registered as a Federal State Unitary Enterprise, owned by the government of Russia. [3]
TASS traces its history back to 1904 when it was founded as the St Petersburg Telegraph Agency, the first official news agency of Russia. It has retained its Soviet-era name, whose initials stand ...
Born in Hyde Park, New York, in 1813, he was named after American naval heroes, Commodores Oliver Hazard Perry, Matthew Perry (naval officer) and Thomas MacDonough. Little is known of his early life, but in his early thirties he left his unrewarding law office job and routine east coast lifestyle. In 1846, he headed south to New Orleans.
Federal authorities arrested and charged a New Jersey woman on Thursday with helping a Russian billionaire circumvent U.S. sanctions on his businesses and have a baby on American soil. Olga Shriki ...
Rost was the second Bukharian-Jewish newspaper in history, after the pre-revolutionary Raḥamim and was the first Bukharian-Jewish Soviet newspaper. [2] Behind the launching of Rost stood Rahmin Badalov, the director of the Educational Institute (INPROS), who had set up a Bukharian-Jewish printing house. [3]
Susan Walsh (February 18, 1960 – disappeared July 16, 1996) [2] was an American writer and freelance journalist who disappeared outside her home in Nutley, New Jersey, on July 16, 1996.
By 1929, the telegraph networks destroyed in the Civil War of 1918–1920 were restored to the pre-World War I level. Further improvement of telegraph communication was aimed at a conversion to letter-printing telegraphs. The first facsimile communications line was opened in 1929.