- ELTA
ELTA is a
Lithuania nnews agency based in the Lithuanian capitalVilnius .ELTA was founded in 1920 in
Kaunas , the second largest city in Lithuania, byJuozas Eretas , the first director of the agency, aliterature professor ,publicist , and public figure of Swiss descent who sought to make the ELTA news wire as efficient and reliable as a "Swiss watch ".Between 1920 and 1940, ELTA cooperated closely with the most prominent foreign agencies – its five teletypes used to send news from
Reuters , DNB,HAVAS ,STEFANI and TASS. Between 1926 and 1927, the director of ELTA wasJustas Paleckis , who later in 1940 was installed asPremier Minister by the Soviets.When Soviet troops occupied Lithuania in 1940, ELTA was incorporated as a part of the
USSR information service known as TASS and relayed news fromMoscow over the period 1940–1990. With the recovery of national sovereignty in 1990, ELTA also re-established itsindependence from TASS and its direct contacts with leading global agencies. In 1996, ELTA became an independent (non state-owned) national news agency. Now, ELTA is astock company .Today, ELTA successfully cooperates with foreign news agencies such as
Reuters ,ITAR-TASS , DPA, PAP and others.References
External links
* [http://www.elta.lt ELTA's official website]
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