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Svet
also: Свет
A Russian periodical whose name ('Light') opens the string of luminously named papers Chekhov cites before asking why the press is nonetheless so dark.
Reading notes
- Thoughts of a Reader of Newspapers and Journals §2 Svet
Svet ("Light"), one of several period Russian periodicals with luminous names, cited here to set up the joke that despite all this "light" the press remains dark.