Khovar () is the official

state media State media are typically understood as media outlets that are owned, operated, or significantly influenced by the government. They are distinguished from public service media, which are designed to serve the public interest, operate independent ...

news agency of

Tajikistan Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Dushanbe is the capital city, capital and most populous city. Tajikistan borders Afghanistan to the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border, south, Uzbekistan to ...

History

The news agency was established on December 31, 1925, as the Tajik Telegraph Agency (TTA) during the

Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Tajik ASSR) was an autonomous republic within the Uzbek SSR in the Soviet Union. It was created on 14 October 1924 by a series of legal acts that partitioned the three existing regional entities i ...

era. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, the agency provided special photo reports, describing the situation on the Eastern Front as the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

fought

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...

, this despite much of its staff joining the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...

. After the war, the TTA continued to expand its capabilities. On April 10, 1992, the TTA was renamed Tajik News Agency (TNA) Khovar, and on April 30, 2004, it gained the status of the central state information body under the

government of Tajikistan The politics of Tajikistan nominally takes place in a framework of a presidential system, presidential republic, whereby the President of Tajikistan, President is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Legislati ...

and was renamed the National Information Agency of Tajikistan (NIAT) Khovar. Radio Khovar FM, a subsidiary established in 2011, has since become one of the most popular radio stations in the country.

References

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External links

Khovar Website
News agencies based in Tajikistan Publications with year of establishment missing Publicly funded broadcasters 1925 establishments in the Soviet Union Mass media companies established in 1925