BelTA
BelTA (official name in the business register: State Unitary Enterprise Belarusian Telegraph Agency ; Belarusian : Беларускае Тэлеграфнае Агенцтва , Russian : Белорусское Телеграфное Агентство not officially short БелТА ) is the state-owned and largest news agency in Belarus .
history
The agency was founded on December 23, 1918, after the German occupation of the country at the beginning of the year, in the newly created (nominally) independent Belarusian republic . It was already an official agency back then and has remained so until today. Since Belarus declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, it has been the official agency of the new state "Republic of Belarus".
structure
BelTA's head office is located in the capital Minsk , and there are additional offices and correspondents in all domestic districts as well as in Moscow (Russia), Kiev (Ukraine), Chișinău (Moldova), Warsaw (Poland) and Vilnius (Lithuania) ) and Caracas (Venezuela). BelTA has also entered into supply partnerships with agencies in Russia , Ukraine , Moldova , Kazakhstan , Armenia and other member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), but also in the People's Republic of China , Malaysia , Cuba and Iran . According to its own information, BelTA works particularly closely with the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS , but is formally legally independent from it.
activities
The main focus of activity is the publication of daily, weekly and monthly information sheets. It supplies around 700 customers worldwide, including around 300 mass media, of which around 140 are in Russia (as of 2011).
Online BelTA distributes around 150 to 200 reports in real time in Russian, Belarusian, English, German and Spanish every day. Messages in Arabic and Chinese are also planned from 2012. According to the company, around 70% of the reports distributed online are official communications from the Belarusian authorities. BelTA has also been active in social networks on the Internet since 2011 .
In addition to its work as a news agency, BelTA produces a wide variety of official printed matter and looks after the websites of authorities as well as state-owned companies and organizations both technically and conceptually.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About Us , accessed March 19, 2012
- ↑ BelTA is expanding language versions to include Chinese and Arabic from 2012 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , BelTA, April 29, 2012, accessed March 19, 2012
