The purpose of this study is to restore a holistic picture of the agency's work under the special conditions of its existence. Unlike other world news agencies, which were based on private capital, TASS was a government agency, which often provoked attacks from Western sociologists and politicians that "the agency is not a body that respects the interests of freedom of the press, its independence." Nevertheless, in the second half of the twentieth century, TASS firmly established itself in the top five world news agencies and in 1960-1980, along with Reuters, Associated Press, UPI (United Press International) and Aghan France Press, transmitted information around the globe and enjoyed the trust of numerous media.