Bessarabian press at the beginning of XX century represents a complex and controversial reflexion of the events that took place in this area, events that are still difficult to understand for researchers.

Due to socio-political changes occurred after revolution 1905-1907, official press lost its control over media market of huge Imperia, including Bessarabian province. The evidences discussed in this paper, identify a large amount of newspapers titles between years 1900-1918 (mostly in Russian language) that belonged to individuals.

The paper represents a synthetic and documentary perspective on history of Bessarabian press in the context of imperial censorship. The phenomenon of press in tsarist imperia cannot be perceived and studied adequately, if not compared with censorship institutes. Our mission is to study and highlight the specifics of Bessarabian press at the beginning of XXth century. We have some reasons to fix these objectives:
– Lack of historical data about titles of newspapers appeared in Bessarabia between years 1900-1918;
– Identification of documentary sources, to identify the volume of information about press’ censorship in Bessarabia at the beginning of XXth century;
– Recognition of special conditions of applying the tsarist censorship law in Bessarabia, on the basis of Manifest from October, 17, 1905.