The Russian Government, however, had already had an extensive experience in the art of dissembling, and the ministers tried to keep silent about the methods by which our government “gave the strikes a political character”; it told the public the dates of the socialists’ leaflets. ###>Mais le gouvernement russe est passé maître en fait d'hypocrisie, et les ministres ont eu soin de ne pas souffler mot des moyens par lesquels notre gouvernement " a donné aux grèves un caractère politique ".