TASS launches news service on Russian economy in English

Business & Economy March 26, 2015, 16:49

Russia’s TASS news agency has launched its newsfeed on Russia’s economy in English – TASS Economic & Business News Service

The newsfeed will provide at least 100 messages a day directed at a professional audience: foreign and Russian English-language business media; international companies represented in Russia as well as Russian companies with English websites; embassies, diplomatic and trade offices.

TASS Economic & Business News Service is a text newsfeed, accumulating information on key industries and macroeconomic data in Russia, as well as exclusive expert and analytical pieces. TASS will provide data to its subscribers with its traditionally balanced and objective approach.

TASS Economic & Business News Service is produced by journalists with many years of experience in international media.

“We have confidence in the success of the English-language business news service,” says TASS Director General Sergey Mikhailov. “Russia’s economy, despite the recent challenging environment, has huge potential for development. Foreign investor interest in Russia’s economy and business news is bound to only grow.”

TASS Economic & Business News Service has completed technical testing and is already available to more than 50 subscribers.

The agency’s English-language products also include TASS English News Service, which covers political and social news, as well as a separate feed on Transport News.

More information on TASS products and corporate news is available on our website http://tass.ru/en

TASS News Agency

TASS is Russia’s leading state information agency which celebrated its 110th anniversary September 1st, 2014. The agency has the largest reporter network among Russian media: 70 regional centers and offices in Russia and 68 foreign offices in 63 countries of the world, which allows TASS to cover events anywhere around the globe in real time.

The agency produces more than 100 different information packages on political, economic, social, cultural and sports news in Russia and other countries in Russian and English.

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