1885.
May 26. The magazine Nabliudátel receives a second warning for its "manifestly prejudiced tendency."
July 4. The Jewish magazine Voskhéd receives a second warning for "audaciously unfavorable criticism"' of certain laws and regulations relating to the Russian Jews.
Sept. 1. Permission to publish a newspaper in the town of Krasnoyársk, Eastern Siberia, is denied by the Minister of the Interior, without the assignment of any reason.
Sept. 15. The St. Petersburg medical newspaper Health is suppressed absolutely.
Sept. 15. The Tiflis newspaper Drosbá is suppressed absolutely.
Sept. 22. The Eastern Review of St. Petersburg receives a third warning and is suspended for two weeks because it "misrepresents the actions of Siberian officials."
Sept. 29. The street sales of the St. Petersburg Nóvosti are forbidden.
Oct. 17. A circular letter from the chief bureau of censorship forbids the publication of any news and the expression of any opinion with regard to the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the emancipation of the serfs.
Oct. 20. The newspaper Life is forbidden to print advertisements, and its street sales are forbidden.
Oct. 27. An unpopular man named Alexander Schmidt is appointed by the Government to fill a chair as professor in the university of Dórpat. The students, unable to express their disapproval and dissatisfaction in any other way, insert the following advertisement in the Dórpat Gazette, and the censor approves it without looking up the reference: "2 Timothy iv. 14."[1]
Nov. 3. The Siberian Gazette in Tomsk asks permission to publish twice a week instead of once. Permission denied.
Nov. 7. The St. Petersburg Grázhdanín receives a first warning on account of an editorial entitled, "The Ideas of a Sailor with regard to Naval Qualifications."
Nov. 10. The Kiev newspaper Zaryá, "on account of the departure from town" [exile] "of its official editor, has suspended publication until a new editor shall have been confirmed" [by the Minister of the Interior].
Nov. 24. One of the correspondents of the Irkútsk newspaper Sibír telegraphs the editor that he has been arrested and imprisoned on account of his last letter, and that his life is in danger.
Nov. 27. The Moscow newspaper Russ receives a first warning for "discussing current events in a tone not compatible with true patriotism," and for efforts "to excite disrespect toward the Government."
1 The verse is as follows: "Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: The Lord reward him according to his works."
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