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Aug. 5. The St. Petersburg Voskhód receives a first warning "for daring to criticize unfavorably the laws and measures of the Government, falsely interpreting their aim and significance, and inciting hostility between one class of citizens and another."

Aug. 19. The street sales of the St. Petersburg Nóvosti are again permitted.

Aug. 26. The street sales of the Moscow Rússkia Védomosti are again permitted.

Sept. 9. An official list is published of three hundred volumes of Russian books withdrawn from all public libraries by order of the censorship.

Sept. 16. The Gazéta Gátsuka receives a third warning and is suspended for one month on account of its "prejudiced tendency."

Sept. 23. The Official Messenger announces the permanent suppression of the Muzikálni Mir, the Remesló, the Moscow Gazéta, the Moscow Nediélia, and the Polish newspaper Przyjaciel Mlodziezy.

Nov. 11. The street sales of the Minúta are forbidden.

Nov. 18. The Armenian newspaper Ardagank is suspended for eight months.

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Jan. 10. The Svetóch is suspended on account of its "unqualifiedly pernicious" tendency.

Jan. 27. The lower house of the parliament of Finland [the Seim] petitions the Tsar for freedom of the press, but is denied.

Jan. 31. The street sales of the Ékho are forbidden.

Feb. 18. The dramatic censorship withdraws its objection to the performance of Shakspere's two revolutionary tragedies, "Julius Caesar" and "Coriolanus," and they are given for the first time in Moscow.

Feb. 24. The censorship of the Ekaterínoslav newspaper Dnéiper is removed to Moscow, and the paper suspends.

Feb. 24. The Ékho is deprived, for a term of eight months, of the right to print advertisements, and gives notice of its suspension.

Feb. 28. The Moscow magazine Russian Thought gives notice that, on account of the prohibition of the censor, Count Tolstoi's "Then What is to be Done?" cannot be published in that periodical.

March 24. The newspaper Sibír hints at an occurrence in a certain monastery, "about which the whole city is talking," but concerning which it cannot print a word "for reasons beyond our control."

April 7. The Sovrémmenia Izvéstia is suspended for one month.