TASS.com

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tass.com
The website for TASS, a major Russian government-owned wire agency. The
site uncritically promotes the false or egregiously misleading claims of the
Russian government.
7.5 / 100
Proceed with Maximum Caution: This website is unreliable because it severely violates basic
journalistic standards.
Does not repeatedly publish false or egregiously misleading content 22 points
Gathers and presents information responsibly 18
Has e"ective practices for correcting errors 12.5
Handles the di"erence between news and opinion responsibly 12.5
Avoids deceptive headlines 10
Website discloses ownership and financing 7.5
Clearly labels advertising 7.5
Reveals who's in charge, including any possible conflicts of interest 5
The site provides names of content creators, along with either contact or biographical
information 5
Published in April 2024 on NewsGuardTech.com
Ownership and Financing

TASS is organized as a Federal State Unitary Enterprise, meaning that it is a Russian
government-owned corporation. Its name is the abbreviated form of a phrase that in
English means “Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union,” although it has been known
as TASS since 2014. The corporation’s legal name is ITAR-TASS News Agency and it
is registered in Singapore. The site states on the About TASS page that it is a “state
news agency.”
At the time of NewsGuard’s April 2024 review, TASS did not run advertisements.
Content
TASS predominantly covers Russia’s domestic and foreign a"airs. The site describes
itself as “one of the most cited Russian news agencies,” and professes to publish
approximately “3,000 news items in six languages and about 700 photographs and
videos from correspondents in Russia and across the world daily.”
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, TASS has focused on what the site
calls the “military operation in Ukraine,” following the Kremlin’s line, including
reports about the alleged crimes against civilians perpetrated by the Ukrainian
military, the purported successes of the Russian army in liberating Ukrainian
territory from “nationalists” and “Nazi groups,” and alleged Ukrainian losses of
equipment, ammunition and personnel.
Stories also cover what the site calls the “anti-Russian sanctions” implemented by
Western countries in response to the war, with reports on how sanctions are
spurring a global food crisis and how Russia is seeking to strengthen economic ties
with China “even if the West is pressuring China to join their sanctions against
Russia.”
Typical Foreign A"airs stories cover topics such as news on the status of Finland and
Sweden’s NATO ascension, regular updates on the number of civilians killed in Gaza
as a result of the Israel-Hamas war, and supposed divisions within Europe over the
Russia-Ukraine war.
Content on the site is divided into sections including Russian Politics & Diplomacy,
World, Business & Economy, Military & Defense, Science & Space, Emergencies,
Society & Culture, Sport. The site also publishes a daily press review summarizing
the lead stories in the major Russian newspapers.
TASS.com links to its Russian-language counterpart.
Credibility
The site states on the About TASS page that its coverage, drawing on
correspondents around the world, forms “a complete and objective picture of
events.” In fact, TASS’ news coverage regularly advances false or egregiously
misleading claims and propaganda promoted by the Kremlin, and omits or refutes
facts and positions that do not align with the goals of the Russian government,
which owns and funds the website.
TASS consistently publishes false claims about Ukrainian politics and the Russia-
Ukraine war
For example, a January 2024 article titled “Kharkov incident reveals France's
prolonged involvement in Ukraine conflict — expert” said that “the Russian Defense
Ministry said that the Russian forces had carried out a surgical strike on the
temporary deployment site of foreign militants in Kharkov, predominantly French
nationals. The strike left more than 60 militants dead.” The article cited comments
made to TASS by Russian academic Oleg Karpovich, that “The elimination of French
mercenaries in Kharkov shows that France has long been involved in the military
conflict in Ukraine.” The article did not question the claim that Russia killed 60
French nationals in Kharkiv, or provide any additional context.
In fact, there is no evidence that Russia killed a large group of French fighters in a
January 2024 missile strike in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. French
Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu said in a Jan. 26, 2024, statement that the claim
was “a crude Russian disinformation campaign,” noting that “France does not
employ mercenaries.” An unnamed French security o#cial told Le Monde that as of
Jan. 26, 2024, “there is no proof of the death of a single French person" in the
Kharkiv strike.
Moreover, several individuals named by Russian state media as French mercenaries

supposedly killed in the strike have publicly refuted the claims, and multiple French
fighters and other people who are in contact with foreign volunteers in Ukraine told
French media that there is no evidence that any were harmed in Kharkiv in January
2024. Combat experts have also noted that it is highly unlikely that dozens of French
fighters would have been gathered in the same place at the same time in Ukraine.
A December 2023 video titled “Soros family makes deal with Kiev to use Ukrainian
land as toxic waste dump — journalist” stated: “The Ukrainian authorities plan to
allocate 400 square kilometers of fertile black soil for the disposal of hazardous
chemical and radioactive waste under an agreement with George Soros’s son
Alexander.” The article referenced “French freelance journalist Jules Vincent, citing
an o#cial from the Ukrainian Environment Protection and Natural Resources
Ministry.”
In fact, there is no evidence that Alexander Soros, the son of Hungarian-American

billionaire George Soros, made a deal with Ukrainian authorities to allocate
Ukrainian land for Western companies to dispose of toxic waste. A spokesperson for
the Open Society Foundations, a charity founded by George Soros and where
Alexander Soros is chair of the Board of Directors, told NewsGuard by email in
December 2023 that the claim is false. Sashko Kulchytsky, a spokesperson for Open
Society’s Ukraine-based NGO, the International Renaissance Foundation, also told
NewsGuard in an emailed statement, “This information is completely false.”
Moreover, a representative of the O#ce of the President of Ukraine told BBC

journalist Olga Robinson that the claims are “a lie - from beginning to end.” Three of
the companies cited in Russian media as being part of the deal, Dupont, Vitol and
Evonik, also told the BBC that the report is false.
A September 2023 article titled “West unleashes genocide on Russian speakers in

Ukraine — top security o#cial” quoted a statement to reporters by Russian Security
Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev, who said, “Having brought a neo-Nazi terrorist
regime to power in Ukraine as a result of a bloody coup, the Anglo-Saxons have
unleashed genocide against the Russian population. Thus, since 2014, the
population of Donbass, which is mostly Russian, has been subjected to violence and
physical destruction." (Russian o#cials often use the term “Ango-Saxons” to refer
to the U.S. and the UK.)
In fact, the International Criminal Court, the O#ce of the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe have
all said they have found no evidence of genocide in Ukraine’s eastern region of
Donbas, as is often claimed by Russian o#cials. The U.S. mission to the Organization
for Security and Co-operation in Europe called the genocide claim a “reprehensible
falsehood” in a Feb. 16, 2022 post on its o#cial Twitter account. It said that the
mission “has complete access to the government-controlled areas of Ukraine and
HAS NEVER reported anything remotely resembling Russia’s claims.”
Moreover, the Ukrainian government is not a “neo-Nazi terrorist regime,” as

Patrushev stated, repeating a frequent Kremlin claim. According to a 2018 Freedom
House report, “Far-right radicals and extremists at present can claim neither
significant parliamentary representation nor any plausible path to power in
Ukraine.” Indeed, in the 2014 parliamentary elections, the far-right nationalist party
Svoboda received 4.7 percent of the vote. In the 2019 presidential election, the
Svoboda candidate, Ruslan Koshulynskyy, won just 1.6 percent of the vote, and in the
parliamentary elections, Svoboda won 2.2 percent of the vote. Svoboda currently
holds one parliamentary seat.
There is also no evidence that the 2014 Maidan revolution in Ukraine that led to the
ouster of then-president Viktor Yanukovych was a “bloody coup” orchestrated by
the U.S. and the UK, as the article claimed. While it is true that the U.S. supported the
Maidan revolution, there is no evidence that the West orchestrated the revolution.
TASS frequently repeats Russian o#cials’ statements about Ukraine being a neo-
Nazi state. For example, a September 2023 article titled “Zelensky's applause for
fascist confirms Kiev's Nazi ideology — Kremlin” said, “Ukrainian President Vladimir
Zelensky's applause for an SS division fascist in the Canadian parliament once again
confirms the Nazi ideology of the Kiev regime, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov
said.”
A February 2023 article titled, “Russian troops heroically fight against neo-Nazi Kiev
regime — Putin” uncritically cited Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement that
“our fighters are heroically battling neo-Nazism which took root in Ukraine and
protecting our people on our historical territories.” The article quoted Putin without
questioning the claim or providing any additional context.
An April 2022 article, titled “Russia’s UN envoy says no doubt Bucha provocation
was staged,” claimed that the massacre of civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bucha in
March 2022 was staged. The article quoted Russia’s envoy to the UN Vasily
Nebenzya, saying “The footage that was being presented in particular, in Bucha, on
which I spoke does not give us any doubt that this was staged.”
There is no evidence that the massacre of civilians in Bucha, a city near the capital
Kyiv, was staged. In early April 2022, multiple news organizations, including Reuters,
The Associated Press, and AFP, documented the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian
city, which had been under Russian occupation for about a month, beginning on
Feb. 27, 2022. Various news organizations spoke with residents in Bucha after the
Russian army left. They all said that Russians were responsible for the killings of
civilians.
An April 4, 2022, review of videos and satellite imagery conducted by The New York
Times showed that many of the dead civilians lying on the streets of Bucha were
killed in mid-March 2022, when Russia, by its own account, was in control of Bucha.
One video filmed by a local council member on April 1, 2022, showed multiple dead
bodies strewn along Yablonska Street in Bucha, according to the Times. Satellite
images provided to the newspaper by Maxar Technologies, a Colorado-based space
technology company, showed that at least 11 of the bodies appeared on the streets
of Bucha between March 9 and 11, 2022, and therefore were likely killed during that
time period.
Additionally, residents in Bucha told Human Rights Watch that civilians were killed
by Russians in March 2022. In an April 3, 2022 report, the international human rights
organization stated that Russian forces in Bucha rounded up five men and summarily
executed one of them on March 4, 2022.
In a March 2024 review, NewsGuard found that TASS has continued to routinely
publish articles claiming that the Bucha massacre was staged. For example, a
December 2023 article, titled "Russian diplomat points to evidence of Bucha
incident being staged," said "According to Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman
Maria Zakharova, it was an incident staged by Ukraine with the assistance of the US
and the UK."
TASS has repeatedly promoted Russia’s denial of involvement in the crash of

Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) in July 2014, which crashed in Ukraine’s Donetsk
area, killing all 298 passengers and crew members on board. For example, a January
2024 article titled “By shooting down Il-76 Kiev calls into question any agreements
— Russian diplomat” stated “Kiev in 2014 started the war ‘by shooting down a
Malaysian passenger airliner (Flight MH17),’” citing Russian Ministry of Foreign
A"airs Ambassador, Rodion Miroshnik. The article did not question the claim that
Ukraine shot down MH17. (The article's title refers to the Jan. 24, 2024, crash of an
Ilyushin Il-76 plane near the Ukrainian border in Russia, which Russia said had been
carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war and was shot down by Ukraine.)
In fact, the article’s assertion that Ukraine shot down flight MH17 is contradicted by
the findings of several independent investigations. On May 24, 2018, a joint
investigation team of Dutch, Australian, Belgian, Malaysian, and Ukrainian
authorities concluded that the Buk missile system responsible for the Flight MH17
crash belonged to the Russian army. The report confirmed a 2017 open-source
investigation by the enterprise reporting website Bellingcat, which compiled
available evidence about the Buk missile system that caused the Flight MH17 crash,
tracking its route from Russia’s 53rd anti-aircraft brigade in Kursk across the Ukraine
border to territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
The Netherlands and Australia announced in a press release on May 25, 2018, that
based on the conclusions of the joint investigation team, they were “convinced that
Russia is responsible for the deployment of the Buk installation that was used to
down MH17” and would “hold Russia responsible for its part in the downing of flight
MH17.” The announcement said that this decision was “separate from the criminal
investigation and any prosecution and trial of the perpetrators of the downing of
flight MH17.” Russia has repeatedly denied being involved with the crash.
Similarly, a February 2020 article, titled “No Buk missile systems detected near MH17
crash zone — leaked document,” reported on Dutch military documents stating that
the crash “took place in the region where no Buk missile systems were deployed.”
Because TASS has uncritically advanced the false or egregiously misleading claims
of Russian government o#cials, NewsGuard has determined that the site publishes
false or egregiously misleading information, does not gather and present
information responsibly, and does not avoid misleading headlines.
The site does not typically publish opinionated content. However, because the site’s
news coverage consistently advances the agenda of the Russian government,
without disclosing the site’s pro-Russia agenda, NewsGuard has determined that
TASS.com does not responsibly handle the separation of news from opinion.
TASS does not articulate a corrections policy and NewsGuard did not find any
corrections on the site.
In July 2020, NewsGuard sent two emails to an email address listed on TASS’
Contacts page, as well as two messages to a TASS managing editor identified via
LinkedIn, seeking comment on the site’s promotion of false or egregiously
misleading government claims and its lack of corrections, but received no response.
NewsGuard also called TASS asking to speak with an editor, and was directed to
contact another email address; two emails sent to that account did not draw a
response. A follow-up email in September 2021 to the address listed on the site’s
Contacts page also did not receive a response.A further two emails from
NewsGuard in July 2022, two emails each to the TASS international email address
and media inquiries address In March 2023, and two emails to the TASS media
enquiries address in March 2024 also did not draw a response.
Transparency
In previous reviews, NewsGuard found that TASS disclosed its ownership on the
site’s About page, describing itself as “Russia's leading state news
agency.” However, in its March 2024 review, NewsGuard found that this language
had been removed from the About page, and that the site no longer provided any
information about its ownership.
Previously, the site’s Management page named the organization’s directors and
editors. However, at the time of NewsGuard’s March 2023 and March 2024 reviews,
this page was not functioning and instead, directed users to the site’s
homepage. Since information about the site’s editorial leadership was not available
to users at the time of NewsGuard’s March 2023 and March 2024 reviews,
NewsGuard determined that the site does not meet the standard for identifying
editorial leaders.
In March 2023, NewsGuard did not receive a response to two emails to the TASS
international email address and media inquiries address, inquiring about the site’s
lack of disclosure regarding editorial leaders.
A general contact phone number is provided on the site’s Contacts page, as well as
a Moscow street address and general email addresses for various parts of the
organization.
Articles do not typically name the author, and the site does not provide biographical
or contact information for its content creators.
In July 2020, there was no response to two emails sent to an email address listed on
TASS’ Contacts page, as well as two messages to a TASS managing editor, seeking
comment on the site’s lack of information about content creators. NewsGuard also
called TASS asking to speak with an editor, and was directed to contact another
email address; two emails sent to this account did not draw a response. A follow-up
email in September 2021 also did not draw a response. A further two emails in March
2024, inquiring whether the site discloses its ownership and editorial leadership,
and about its approach to disclosing content creators, also did not draw a response.
At the time of NewsGuard’s April 2024 review, TASS no longer featured

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History
According to its History page, TASSoriginated in 1904 as the St. Petersburg
Telegraph Agency, at the instigation of the Russian Empire’s Finance, Interior, and
Foreign Ministries, and with the approval of the Empire’s last Tsar, Nicholas II.
The organization became the Petrograd Telegraph Agency in 1914, following the
renaming of St. Petersburg. In 1917, it was declared the central government
information agency by the new Bolshevik government, less than a month after its
building was seized from the provisional government by revolutionary Baltic Fleet
seamen. The agency was named the Russian Telegraph Agency, or ROSTA, from 1918
until 1925, when its name changed once more to the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet
Union, or TASS. The government assigned TASS the exclusive right both to
distribute Soviet information outside the Soviet Union and to distribute foreign
information within it.
In 1992, following the fall of the Soviet Union, the organization was renamed the
Information Telegraph Agency of Russia, or ITAR-TASS, and was rebranded TASS
once again in 2014.
TASS.com was created in 1993.
Editor’s Note: This Nutrition Label was last updated on April 1, 2024, to reflect that
the site no longer meets NewsGuard’s standard for identifying ownership. The
criteria checklist was adjusted accordingly. The label was previously updated on
March 24, 2023, July 6, 2022, Feb. 19, 2022, and Sept. 28, 2021.
Written by: Bron Maher, Madeline Roache

Contributing: Melissa Goldin
Edited by: Eric E"ron, Peggy Ackermann
Sources
Ownership and Financing
https://TASS.com/contacts
https://TASS.com/today
https://opencorporates.com/companies/sg/T14NB0001H
Content
Typical coverage
https://web.archive.org/web/20200709161441/https://TASS.com/ (front page)
https://TASS.ru/?_ga=2.78232724.1439751015.1632771333-1279798391.1632771333
https://TASS.com/politics/1176605
https://TASS.com/russia/1176369
https://TASS.com/society/1176527
https://TASS.com/economy/1176557
https://TASS.com/world/1176571
https://TASS.com/defense/1176627
https://pluto.TASS.com/pluto-search
https://spec.TASS.com/refugee-stories/
https://dante.TASS.com/divine-comedy/
https://spec.TASS.com/aserussia_energy/
https://TASS.com/anti-russian-sanctions
https://TASS.com/economy/1465831
2023 update
Typical stories
https://TASS.com/russia/1588779
Credibility
Genocide
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/UA/32ndReportUkraine-en.pdf
https://www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/otp/161114-otp-rep-PE_ENG.pdf
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ukraine-crisis-killings-both-sides-not-
scale-reported-russian-media
https://carnegieendowment.org/2014/07/28/crying-genocide-use-and-abuse-of-
political-rhetoric-in-russia-and-ukraine-pub-56265
Nazism
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/02/russian-disinformation-distorted-reality-in-
ukraine-americans-should-take-note-putin-mueller-elections-antisemitism/
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Kremlin-Funded-
Media_January_update-19.pdf
https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/The-Maidan-protest-movement
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2014/02/27/the-february-revolution
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/world/europe/as-his-fortunes-fell-in-
ukraine-a-president-clung-to-illusions.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside-a-russian-
disinformation-campaign-in-ukraine-in-2014/2017/12/25/f55b0408-e71d-11e7-
ab50-621fe0588340_story.html
https://freedomhouse.org/report/analytical-brief/2018/far-right-extremism-threat-
ukrainian-democracy
Bucha
https://archive.ph/zMkdg#selection-1763.33-1763.73
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/world/europe/bucha-ukraine-bodies.html
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/03/ukraine-apparent-war-crimes-russia-
controlled-areas
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/04/04/russias-bucha-facts-versus-the-
evidence/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx9JlNu_H1Y
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-accuses-russia-war-crimes-after-
bodies-found-bound-shot-2022-04-04/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220404224028/https://twitter.com/politblogme/sta
tus/1510852962020737027?s=20&t=O10Boj9AAEMMBxspR1asWg
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220402-ukraine-claims-kyiv-region-as-
russians-pull-back-bodies-in-nearby-towns
https://web.archive.org/web/20220403191846/https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/
1510698253964222464
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/03/bucha-ukraine-graves-war-
crimes-calls-icc/
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2022/04/04/massacre-de-boutcha-
sur-les-reseaux-sociaux-l-operation-de-desinformation-de-
moscou_6120559_4355770.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/60981238
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/04/04/russias-bucha-facts-versus-the-
evidence/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/russian-war-report-kremlin-
claims-bucha-massacre-was-staged-by-ukraine/#bucha
https://web.archive.org/web/20220404195900/https://twitter.com/ViktoriiaUAH/st
atus/1509985789404459011
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/04/1/7336396/
https://auroraintel.net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdtaiM4Tb5k
https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2022/04/04/massacre-de-boutcha-
sur-les-reseaux-sociaux-l-operation-de-desinformation-de-
moscou_6120559_4355770.html
https://russiancouncil.ru/en/adriel-kasonta/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-ombudswoman-says-up-300-
bodies-may-be-bucha-mass-grave-2022-04-05/
https://www.logically.ai/articles/double-check-what-can-we-know-about-bucha-
right-now
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-retreat-leaves-trail-slain-civilians-
town-near-kyiv-2022-04-02/
https://www.dw.com/en/russia-pledges-to-scale-down-military-activity-near-kyiv-
chernihiv-as-it-happened/a-61286047
https://www.bbc.com/news/60981238
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/30/devastation-and-loss-bucha-ukraine
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-mayor-shows-dead-bodies-
liberated-city-bucha-2022-04-03/
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220402-bodies-litter-ukraine-town-s-
street-of-death
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-bucha-bodies-
3f5deb515b3036c0f115c3fccc0e34a6
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/bucha-atrocities-
civilian-killings/?itid=hp-top-table-main
https://www.logically.ai/factchecks/library/c10c685e
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?
fbid=7439141622793335&set=ecnf.100000927127126
https://www.bbc.com/russian/media-61044687
https://twitter.com/BenDoBrown/status/1513085420116004865
https://maldita.es/malditobulo/20220411/maxar-nyt-satelite-bucha/
https://discover.content.maxar.com/
fbid=7439141622793335&set=a.212309398809963
https://www.tiktok.com/@icefil/video/7080527712019909890
https://web.archive.org/web/20220504012419/https://www.facebook.com/nadezhd
a.kolobaeva/posts/7441476835893147
fbid=7443368165704014&set=a.212309398809963
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-bucha-killings-
soldiers/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220519205109/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/1
9/world/europe/russia-bucha-ukraine-executions.html
Douma
http://archive.is/Xk5pO
MH17
http://archive.is/5Gnvm
http://archive.is/ioW5g
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2015/10/08/mh17-the-open-
source-evidence/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44235402
http://archive.is/nIlLv
http://archive.is/pNFMT
http://archive.is/3ikpC
Skripal
http://archive.is/x8XSr
http://archive.is/wip/ZRCjb
http://archive.is/O8g7T
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43377698
https://fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/cbw/jptac008_l94001.htm
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14119110-600-russian-whistleblower-
lands-in-jail/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/09/world/europe/sergei-skripal-russian-spy-
poisoning.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/weeks-on-from-poisoning-attack-yulia-
and-sergei-skripal-are-in-stable-condition/2018/04/06/88b624aa-399c-11e8-
af3c-2123715f78df_story.html?utm_term=.60cefc5c61a9
Mueller
http://archive.is/9fzpq
http://archive.is/NMS2Q
http://archive.is/5ORiZ
http://archive.is/wuQI2
http://archive.is/3qOdf
http://archive.is/GVsPY
http://archive.is/bL6iN
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/read-the-mueller-
report/?utm_term=.76848ae2e1c7
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mueller-report-russia-investigation-
findings/2019/04/18/b07f4310-56f9-11e9-814f-e2f46684196e_story.html?
utm_term=.c76c822e259e
https://www.wired.com/story/did-russia-a"ect-the-2016-election-its-now-
undeniable/
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/18/mueller-report-russian-election-plot-
1365568
https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-has-won-mueller-report-details-the-ways-
russia-interfered-in-the-2016-election-11555666201
Bellingcat “linked to special services”
http://archive.is/tN4yW
http://archive.is/6f4aY
Navalny
https://archive.ph/rv2xy
https://twitter.com/Kira_Yarmysh/status/1296291692946038784?
ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E12962916929460
38784%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeednews.
com%2Farticle%2Fchristopherm51%2Frussian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-
poison
https://twitter.com/Dpol_un/status/1341115298045440001
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/17/poison-squad-stalked-alexei-
navalny-on-40-flights-says-bellingcat-investigator
https://TASS.ru/obschestvo/9243871
https://t.me/breakingmash/20015
https://t.me/breakingmash/20014
https://twitter.com/Kira_Yarmysh/status/1296331866979606528
https://twitter.com/Kira_Yarmysh/status/1296352377935671296?
ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E12963523779356
71296%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeednews.
com%2Farticle%2Fchristopherm51%2Frussian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-
poison
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/russian-opposition-leader-
alexei-navalny-poison
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/world/europe/navalny-poison-russia.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/europe/alexey-navalny-russia-travel-
intl/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztsjdrwFkmw
https://www.france24.com/en/20200902-russia-s-navalny-poisoned-by-nerve-
agent-germany-says-citing-unequivocal-proof
https://www.barrons.com/news/tests-show-proof-navalny-poisoned-by-nerve-
agent-germany-01599054904
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/19/hold-alexei-navalny-timeline-from-
poisoning-to-prison
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-ap-top-news-international-news-
europe-c7a5c4e5"2ce454a0a99400e8016005?
utm_medium=ap&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/02/963160053/kremlin-critic-navalny-faces-court-
hearing-could-see-3-5-years-in-prison
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/20/alexei-navalny-russian-
opposition-figure-unconscious-in-hospital-says-aide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/20/a-cup-of-tea-then-screams-of-
agony-how-alexei-navalny-was-left-fighting-for-his-life
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-kremlin/kremlin-
rejects-navalny-poisoning-accusations-sanctions-talk-idUSKBN25U1GW
https://twitter.com/RegSprecher/status/1305483543167066114/photo/1
https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/news/2020/10/opcw-issues-report-technical-
assistance-requested-germany
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201221-navalny-says-he-tricked-fsb-
agent-into-admitting-poisoning
https://www.voanews.com/europe/russian-court-sentences-alexei-navalny-35-
years-prison
https://theins.ru/about
https://www.newsweek.com/kremlin-rejects-alexei-navalny-poison-reports-anti-
russia-campaign-novichok-1529393
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/02/02/navalnys-poisoning-could-have-
been-staged-by-west-says-russian-foreign-minister-a72808
https://www.dw.com/en/russia-accuses-germany-of-spreading-misinformation-
on-navalny/a-55776770
https://TASS.com/politics/1444523 (denazification Ukraine)
2023 update
Nazism claims
https://freedomhouse.org/report/analytical-brief/2018/far-right-extremism-threat-
ukrainian-democracy
https://euromaidanpress.com/2019/07/22/zelenskyy-to-form-monocoalition-and-
other-takeaways-of-ukrainian-elections/
https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2015-11-04/local-government-
elections-ukraine
https://archive.ph/jpEPV
https://TASS.com/russia/1581363 (Bucha)
Credibility
https://www.irf.ua/aleksander-soros-zustrivsya-z-kerivnycztvom-derzhavy-ta-
uryadu/
https://twitter.com/o_rob1nson/status/1732783248583929913
https://twitter.com/pigist/status/1731631552973447351
https://www.stopfake.org/ru/fejk-ukraina-vydelila-seme-sorosa-400-kv-km-zemli-
pod-zahoronenie-opasnyh-othodov/
https://ru.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/12/11/the-cube-soros-land-ukraine
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/12/12/did-the-ukrainian-government-
plan-to-sell-plots-of-land-o"-to-george-soross-family?
utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1Vj
Ta3xtdP8vrA8NFG8g7MtBCCGWjArRPJrLWVW5Y7KN5nDx3MX7EJmkE#Echobox=1
702360084
https://www-president-gov-ua.translate.goog/documents/decrees?
_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
French mercenaries claim
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-media-french-men-kharkiv-
missile/32793378.html?fbclid=IwAR1rhEjovdxAKoflR3nPc5bFMtf1RKRe0h_YoBOZ-
zahmG_eAd2q3lGxAtI
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/les-dessous-de-l-infox-la-chronique/20240126-
attaque-informationnelle-la-russie-imagine-la-mort-de-mercenaires-
fran%C3%A7ais-en-ukraine?
fbclid=IwAR3bUaQDG2pI2z1KgRrnyFfBbRjE0rziYS3cfrJ-Vx2weflHhfRAdIASJAk
https://www.tf1info.fr/international/comment-la-russie-a-construit-le-recit-de-la-
mort-de-mercenaires-francais-en-ukraine-2284132.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-missiles-hit-ukraines-kharkiv-
wounding-4-o#cials-say-2024-01-16/
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240129-french-fighters-in-ukrainian-army-
call-out-russian-dead-mercenaries-disinformation
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2023/04/25/des-combattants-
francais-au-c-ur-de-la-legion-internationale-en-ukraine_6170936_3210.ht
Bucha
https://tass.com/politics/1725817
MH17
Patrushev genocide, coup, nazism
https://tass.com/world/1678455
Transparency
https://TASS.com/contacts
http://archive.is/ux0vh
http://archive.is/ux0vh
https://TASS.com/team
http://archive.is/kRkkG
No byline
https://TASS.com/emergencies/1175561
https://TASS.com/pressreview/1175497
https://TASS.com/emergencies/1175371
Byline, further information
https://TASS.com/business-o#cials/1172523
2023
https://TASS.com/team
History
https://TASS.com/history
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ITAR-TASS
https://www.rferl.org/a/TASS-russia-o#ces-searched/27534490.html
https://uk.reuters.com/article/rpb-TASS-connect/TASS-news-agency-joins-
reuters-connect-idUKKBN2381UQ
http://rusletter.com/articles/head_of_TASS_sergey_mikhailov_extorts_money_from
_media
https://openjurist.org/153/f3d/82
https://web.archive.org/web/20131021234644/http://www.pattishall.com/pdf/Choic
eofLawinInternational.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20070704065500/http://www.brooklaw.edu/students/
journals/bjil/bjil29ii_tydniouk.pdf
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-intellectual-
property-in-central-and-eastern-europe/comparative-lessons-of-itarTASS-
russian-news-agency-v-russian-kurier/530658A286A642A718B978DC1B819EF2
https://domainbigdata.com/TASS.com
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Gathers and presents information responsibly 18

Has e"ective practices for correcting errors 12.5

Handles the di"erence between news and opinion responsibly 12.5

Avoids deceptive headlines 10

Website discloses ownership and financing 7.5

Clearly labels advertising 7.5

Reveals who's in charge, including any possible conflicts of interest 5

Ownership and Financing

TASS.com links to its Russian-language counterpart.

Moreover, several individuals named by Russian state media as French mercenaries

In fact, there is no evidence that Alexander Soros, the son of Hungarian-American

Moreover, a representative of the O#ce of the President of Ukraine told BBC

A September 2023 article titled “West unleashes genocide on Russian speakers in

Moreover, the Ukrainian government is not a “neo-Nazi terrorist regime,” as

TASS has repeatedly promoted Russia’s denial of involvement in the crash of

At the time of NewsGuard’s April 2024 review, TASS no longer featured

TASS.com was created in 1993.

Written by: Bron Maher, Madeline Roache

https://web.archive.org/web/20200709161441/https://TASS.com/ (front page)

Bellingcat “linked to special services”

https://TASS.com/politics/1444523 (denazification Ukraine)

French mercenaries claim

Patrushev genocide, coup, nazism

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