1888.
Feb. 11. Street sales of the St. Petersburg Grázhdanín are forbidden.
Feb. 21. The newspaper Russian Affairs receives a first warning for "extremely indecent criticisms of the acts of the Government."
Feb. 25. The Odéssa Messenger is suspended for three months.
March 17. Street sales of the Bourse Gazette are forbidden.
April 7. The Sarátof Leaflet is suspended for one month.
April 17. Street sales of the St. Petersburg Grázhdanín are forbidden.
May 1. The commission engaged in revising the penal code decides that the unauthorized publication for distribution of any work of science or art shall be punished with one year's imprisonment.
May 5. The Siberian Messenger, of Tomsk, is suspended for four months.
Sept. 25. The Hebrew newspaper Gatsifer, of Warsaw, is suspended for four months.
Sept. 25. Street sales of the Bourse Gazette are forbidden.
Nov. 20. The magazine Diélo is finally suppressed.
1889.
July 30. Street sales of the St. Petersburg Nóvosti are forbidden.
Aug. 1. Mr. Sharápof, editor of the newspaper Russian Affairs, is removed from his place, by the Minister of the Interior, for going abroad without notifying the chief press administration of his intention to do so.
1890.
Jan. 1. The magazine European Messenger receives a first warning for publishing an article, by Vladimir Solivióf, entitled "The History of Russian Consciousness."
April 1. The Nikoláief newspaper Southerner is suspended for eight months.
April 29. The Moscow Gazette receives a first warning for "extremely audacious references to the imperial authorities who are at the head of the government of Finland."
June 10. Street sales of the Bourse Gazette are forbidden.
June 17. Street sales of the St. Petersburg Grázhdanín are forbidden.
July 29. Street sales of the newspaper Minúta are forbidden.
Oct. 14. The Eastern Review is suspended for four months.
1891.
Jan. 22. Councilor Smirnóf, of the bureau of censorship, orders thirteen verses of the Koran to be expunged from all copies printed in Russia.
Feb. 1. The Kursk Leaflet is suspended for one month.
Feb. 23. Street sales of the St. Petersburg Nóvoe Vrémya are forbidden.
