still prevented from priestly work, cecan dedicated himself to his journalistic activity, founding, in 1914, the newspaper "bessarabets". he was moderating his stances: although still representing the "right-wing section of the eparchy", he opened up to former adversaries on the right and the left, together with whom he put out "bessarabya" (1914), then "bessarabaskaya pochta" and "nash dolg" (both 1915).