The Kuranty (occasionally titled Vesti , Vedomosti , or Vestovye pisma ) was the first Russian hand-written newspaper , published in the 17th century in Tsardom of Russia . The earliest extant issue is dated 1621.
5-587: The Kuranty was established by a ukase of Emperor Michael of Russia was issued by the Posolsky Prikaz for selected government officials in order to inform them about foreign events. Diaks who compiled the newspaper used such sources as German and Dutch newspapers — one of which apparently inspired the newspaper's name — as well as letters of Russians travelling abroad. As foreign newspapers were delivered to Moscow via Riga and Wilna , they were frequently outdated and contained stale news, which resulted in
10-485: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ukase In Imperial Russia , a ukase ( / j uː ˈ k eɪ z , - ˈ k eɪ s / ) or ukaz ( Russian : указ [ʊˈkas] ) was a proclamation of the tsar , government, or a religious leadership (e.g., Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' or the Most Holy Synod ) that had the force of law. " Edict " and " decree " are adequate translations using
15-724: The Russian tsar sending letters and embassies to deceased foreign monarchs. Peter the Great replaced the Kuranty with the first printed newspaper in Russian , the Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti . Shamin, Stepan Mikhailovich Kuranty XVII stoletiia : evropeiskaia pressa v Rossii i vozniknovenie russkoi periodicheskoi pechati. Moskva; Sankt-Peterburg, 2011, ISBN 978-5-98874-058-2 [1] This Russian newspaper–related article
20-598: The emperor or from the senate, which had the power of issuing such ordinances for the purpose of carrying out existing decrees. All such decrees were promulgated by the senate. A difference was drawn between the ukase signed by the emperor’s hand and his verbal ukase, or order, made upon a report submitted to him. After the Revolution, a government proclamation of wide meaning was called a " decree " (Russian: декрет, dekret); more specific proclamations were called ukaz . Both terms are usually translated as "decree". According to
25-505: The terminology and concepts of Roman law . From the Russian term, the word ukase has entered the English language with the meaning of "any proclamation or decree; an order or regulation of a final or arbitrary nature". Prior to the 1917 October Revolution , the term applied in Russia to an edict or ordinance, legislative or administrative, having the force of law. A ukase proceeded either from
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