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486 1882. Dec. 16. Permission to publish a newspaper in Nérchinsk, Eastern Siberia, is denied. Dec. 16. The Správochni Listók of Samára is suspended and its office closed. Dec. 19. The Moscow Kuriér is suspended for three months. Dec. 30. An article by Count Leo Tolstoi is torn from the May number of the magazine Russian Thought by order of the censor and burned.

1883. Jan. 2. The Nóvgorod Listók suspends "as a result of causes over which its editors and publishers have no control."

Jan. 5. The Straná is suspended for four months because it has manifested "a pernicious tendency and taken a most discouraging view of the state of affairs in the country."

Jan. 12. The third number of the Moscow Zritel is seized and confiscated.

Jan. 20. The Moscow Telegraph receives a second warning.

Jan. 27. The review Annals of the Fatherland receives a second warning " for sympathizing with socialistic doctrines and for dwelling on the dark side of Russian life."

Feb. 17. The St. Petersburg Gólos receives a third warning, and is suspended for six months, on account of its "mischievous tone in discussing the affairs of the Empire and the reforms of the last quarter of a century."

March 3. The censorship of the Donskói Gólos is transferred from Nóvo-Chérkask to Moscow [a distance of 740 miles], and the publisher notifies subscribers that the next number, and all subsequent numbers, of the paper will be delayed until the proofs can go to Moscow and back — about sixteen days.

March 24. The Odéssa Listók is forbidden to publish any articles whatever relating to the internal affairs of the Empire.

March 24. The Kharkóf newspaper Yúzhni Krái announces that, as a result of "causes over which the editor has no control, the leading editorial article intended for to-day's number cannot be printed."

March 24. The Moscow Telegraph is finally suppressed on account of its "absolutely pernicious tendency."

June 9. The magazine Nabliudátel receives a first warning for its "manifestly prejudicial tendency."

June 27. The Moscow Zritel receives a first warning for an article upon internal affairs.

July 14. The Gazéta Gátsuka receives a first warning, with the prohibition of street sales, for an attack on the editor of the Moscow Gazette, Mr. Katkóf.