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1884. Aug. 5. The St. Petersburg Voskhod receives a first warning " for dar- ing 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.' 1 The street sales of the St. Petersburg Ndvosti are again permitted. The street sales of the Moscow Russkia Vedomosti are again permitted. An official list is published of three hundred volumes of Rus- sian books withdrawn from all public libraries by order of the censorship. The Gazeta Gdtsuka receives a third warning and is suspended for one month on account of its " prejudiced tendency." The Official Messenger announces the permanent suppression of the Muzikdlni Mir, the Remeslo, the Moscow Gazeta, the Mos- cow Nedielia, and the Polish newspaper Przyjaciel Mlodziezy. The street sales of the Minuta are forbidden. The Armenian newspaper Ardagank is suspended for eight months. The Svetoch is suspended on account of its " unqualifiedly per- nicious " tendency. Jan. 27. The lower house of the parliament of Finland [the Seim] peti- tions the Tsar for freedom of the press, but is denied. Jan. 31. The street sales of the tikho are forbidden. Feb. 18. The dramatic censorship withdraws its objection to the per- formance 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 Ekaterinoslav newspaper TJneiper is re- moved to Moscow, and the paper suspends. Feb. 24. The Mho 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 Sibir hints at an occurrence in a certain mon- astery, " about which the whole city is talking," but con- cerning which it cannot print a word " for reasons beyond our control." April 7. The Sovremmenia Izvestia is suspended for one month. Aug. 19. Aug. 26. Sept. 9. Sept. 16. Sept. 23. Nov. 11. Nov. 18. 1885. Jan.

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