Reuters has cut ties with a Russian agency, the news agency said Wednesday. Reuters began listing TASS, a state-backed Russian outlet, on its content marketplace in 2020. That partnership has been revoked, a spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email. “We have decided to remove all TASS content from the business-to-business marketplace on our Reuters Connect platform,” the spokesperson said. Matthew Keen, Reuters’ interim CEO, told staffers in a memorandum that making TASS content available to customers “is not aligned with” the company’s Trust Principles, according to Reuters. Those principles, created in 1941 during World War II, require Reuters and its workers to work to “fully preserve” integrity, independence, and freedom of bias, and say Reuters will supply “unbiased and reliable news services” to its customers, which include businesses and news outlets. Reuters says its newsroom operates independently from Reuters Connect. TASS was no longer listed as a source inside …