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Tsar Nicholas II made a move to fulfill many of these demands, appointing liberal Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirskii Minister of the Interior after the assassination of Vyacheslav von Plehve.

On, the Tsar issued a manifesto promising the broadening of the Zemstvo and local municipal councils ' authority, insurance for industrial workers, the emancipation of Inorodtsy, and the abolition of censorship.

However, the crucial point of representative national legislature was missing in the manifesto.