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The new government’s policy regarding mass media in the Weimar Republic at the time of the first President Ebert required a broader outreach, but was carried out by people who still relied on past experiences and long-established principles, particularly those associated with Bismarck, then founder of German Empire 1871. These patterns include the governmental support of the media that is considered important for society, the accessibility of media that is controversial, allowing for the publication of diverse opinions, oppositional political views and criticism, as well as the possibility to admit to and correct mistakes. The new liberal values during the formation of the Weimar Republic after the Word War I show the specifics of the relationship between the German government and the media in Berlin. The archival material form archives shows and, to a certain extent, confirms the correlation between the governmental support of Russian print media and the success of these publications. From the government’s point of view, these media performed two useful functions: they served the development and organization of a community of emigrants and were occasional source of information about this community.