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Show RUSSIAN JOURNALISM. The publication of a newspaper in the domains of the Czar is attended with sundry drawbacks. For instance, if the news fail to suit the Emperor, he will shut up the newspaper shop and send the editor to Siberia without the preliminary formality of writing a complaining communication to the sheet and signing it "A Lover of Justice." Or, in case the "personal" advertisements are suspected of veiling Nihilistic communications, he will order that the journal appear without advertisements a couple of months-a proceeding not calculated to increase the profits of the business. Naturally enough, newspaper enterprise is at a low ebb in Russia, and the Emperor think of "meeting a long felt want" by starting a newspaper of his own. It is intended that the journal shall circulate largely among the peasantry, and while its professed object is to encourage in them a love for reading, it will also aim to increase their devotion to the imperial rule. |