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1885. May 26. The magazine Nabliuddtel receives a second warning for its " manifestly prejudiced tendency." July 4. The Jewish magazine VosJche'd 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 Krasnoyarsk, 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 Drosbd 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 Novosti are forbidden. Oct. 17. A circular letter from the chief bureau of censorship forbids the publication of any news and the expression of any opin- ion with regard to the celebration of the twenty-fifth anni- versary 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 Dorpat. The students, unable to express their disapproval and dissatisfaction in any other way, insert the following advertisement in the Dorpat 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 Grdzhdanin receives a first warning on ac- count of an editorial entitled, " The Ideas of a Sailor with regard to Naval Qualifications." Nov. 10. The Kiev newspaper Zaryd, " on account of the departure from town" [ex^le] " of its official editor, has suspended publica- tion until a new editor shall have been confirmed " [by the Minister of the Interior], Nov. 24. One of the correspondents of the Irkutsk newspaper Sibir tele- graphs 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 Buss receives a first warning for " dis- cussing 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."