MoscowMembers voted in secret to expel TASS, Russian state news agency TASS reported.

The vote ends a suspension that began in February 2022.

Expulsion failed at earlier assemblies, so the alliance suspended TASS without formally removing it, the agency said.

In 2022 the alliance said restrictions by Russia’s regulator Roskomnadzor left TASS unable to provide unbiased news.

TASS cited Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s claim that Western elites restrict media to deprive voters of information.

How each outlet framed it
TASS leans favorable
casts the expulsion as unexplained and pairs it with Lavrov's claim that the West restricts voters' access to information

Sources: TASS