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Rh 1883. July 21. Mr. L. A. Polónski, editor and publisher of the suppressed newspaper Straná, makes the following announcement. "The editor is forced to announce that, as a result of the embarrassing position in which he is placed by the suspension of the paper in the midst of the receipt of annual subscriptions, there is left to him no means of indemnifying subscribers other than by the offer of a volume of his collected sketches and essays, which is now in course of publication."

July 28. The Rússki Kuriér receives a first warning, for its "prejudicial tendency as manifested in its criticisms of imperial institutions, and for the false light thrown by it on the conditions of peasant life."

Aug. 11. The publisher of the Ékho is allowed to return from exile in Western Siberia.

Sept. 1. The proprietor of the suspended newspaper Gólos decides to give up the struggle with the censorship and go into liquidation.

Sept. 8. The St. Petersburg Nóvosti receives a first warning for expressing sympathy with the suppressed newspaper Gólos.

Oct. 6. Editors are forbidden to put dots or asterisks in places where the censor has crossed out matter.

Oct. 13. On the 3d of February the censorship of the Donskói Gólos was transferred from Nóvo-Chérkask — its place of publication — to Moscow. This necessitated sending all proof sheets to the latter city before publication, at a loss of from fifteen to twenty days' time. For a while the editor struggled along as best he could, getting out his paper at irregular intervals as his copy came back from Moscow, and all the time two to three weeks behind the current news of the day. At last, on the 13th of October, he publishes the following cautious announcement: "The editor and proprietor of the Donskói Gólos, as a result of certain circumstances, will publish no more numbers of that paper until there is a possibility of getting it out with greater regularity. Of this the subscribers will receive due notice."

Nov. 30. A journalist named Rántsef is expelled from St. Petersburg for an article upon Poland, written by him and published in the Nóvosti.

Dec. 15. The Minister of the Interior refuses to allow the St. Petersburg Gólos to be revived under the editorial management of a former member of its staff.

Dec. 22. The magazine Russian Thought receives a first warning for "pernicious tendency."