sentences:  The outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War forced the Tsarist government to make concessions to ethnic minorities and the Lithuanian press ban was lifted in April 1904.He met the news with plans for a publication on ethnography, one of his many interests boosted by a visit from Finnish ethnographer .He published a call in "Vilniaus žinios" (News of Vilnius) for the publication to be edited by Jonas Jablonskis, but the plans remained unrealized.