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491 1885.

Dec. 15. The Moscow merchant Ovchínnikof is punished for printing prayer-books without permission.

1886.

Feb. 19. The Moscow Rússkia Védomosti, having been forbidden to refer editorially to the emancipation of the serfs on the twenty-fifth anniversary of that event, does not appear on that day at all, and thus commemorates it by voluntary silence.

April 3. An application for leave to publish a newspaper in the East-Siberian town of Nérchinsk is denied.

April 3. Street sales of the Moscow Rússkia Védomosti are forbidden.

April 10. Street sales of the Sovrémmenia Izvéstia are forbidden.

April 24. A correspondent of the Irkútsk newspaper Sibír is arrested by order of a Siberian isprávnik, kept two days in prison without food, flogged, put into leg-fetters, and sent back to his place of residence by étape in a temperature of thirty-five degrees below zero (Réaum.). He is not charged with any other crime than furnishing his paper with news.

May 6. The editor of the St. Petersburg Police Gazette, a purely official Government organ, is arrested and imprisoned because, in an article in his paper referring to a "requiem for Alexander II.," there was a typographical error which made it read "a requiem for Alexander III."

May 25. Suits are begun in the courts against the Bourse Gazette and the Week for publishing articles reflecting discredit upon Government officials.

June 7. The Moscow magazine Russian Thought is warned that it will be suppressed for "pernicious tendency" if it continues to "present the dark side of Russian life."

June 10. The censor in Kazán forbids the use of the word velíki [great] in connection with the French revolution of 1793.

June 11. The editor of the Vólga Messenger in Kazán is forbidden by the censor to use the word intelligéntsia [the intelligent class].

June 12. The Government Messenger [the official organ of the Minister of the Interior] prints a list of nineteen periodicals "finally suppressed."

June 14. Governor Baránof, of Nízhni Nóvgorod, asks the chief bureau of censorship to suppress all newspaper correspondence relating to the recent disaster to shipping on the Vólga River, upon the ground that such correspondence would "have a tendency to excite the public mind." [The disaster was the result of the shameless favoritism and mismanagement of the chief of river police in Nízhni Nóvgorod, at the time of the breaking up of the ice in the spring.]