..."In bright and powerful speeches, the orators characterised the present political situation and its further perspective. They pointed, chiefly, to the fact that the correlation of forces had changed: the bourgeois-liberal groups, under the influence of certain concessions, had now renounced full active participation in the country's liberation movement. Therefore the proletariat in its struggle is isolated....
..."The student body completely denies the significance and expediency of the granted reforms. The nobility and the bourgeoisie have adopted a different point of view, betraying the proletariat. After them, it needs support — and the student body, as the exponent of the country's best forces, will join, must join it. Now the student-citizen will appear. He will go to the countryside in order to prepare the peasantry, to teach it socialism. This new force and the proletariat will create a different legal order, even if it costs a thousand victims.
"Such is the brief political credo of the vast majority of students."

ibid. Quoted from No. 36 of Pravo: Hessen (V. M.) against the "boycott". Rus adds on its own that "the idea of 'abstention' in the press" (sic!) is preached by few, e.g. Myakotin in Russkoye Bogatstvo.

Further, Rus says: ..."The question is about preserving the 'principle' in inviolate purity, and this principled dispute recalls the usual dispute that divides Social-Democratic parties in the West, where the orthodox 'principlists' consider participation of S.D.s in a 'bourgeois government' inadmissible. This 'principleness' has at least this justification, that the entire political outlook rests on 'class' distinctions. But in an all-state affair, in the affair of a political reform such as the establishment of the State Duma, even this support of 'principleness' loses its significance."

ibid. From Moskovskiye Vedomosti: they say that "Petersburg" (the government) "is retreating". Retreating before the zemstvo people, students, etc., down to cooks, etc.
"A retreat with a rearguard action" — the Moscow newspaper would have had to note, if one could count on its impartiality.