Русскоязычная периодика Финляндии в начале ХХ века: «Финляндская газета»

At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries the internal political struggle in Russia is escalating, militaristic tendencies in Europe are intensifying. On the “western outskirts” of the empire, anti-Russian, nationalist and separatist sentiments are spreading more and more widely. Under these conditions, the idea of a “united and indivisible Russia” is being actualized as a fundamental principle of state policy. This idea became the core of the process of Russification of the “outskirts”. The government's “Finlyandskaya Gazeta” (1900–1917) became the brainchild of the incipient process of Russification. The ideological pathos, concept, tasks of this newspaper, formulated by its editor I.A. Bazhenov are discussed in this article.