[2] The funds for printing the newspaper were procured by shareholders from the Bulgarian emigrants in Romania with assistance from the government of Mihail Kogălniceanu.

[3] The newspaper was distributed in Alexandria, Giurgiu and other Romanian cities, as well as in Bulgarian lands despite the prohibitions by the Ottoman authorities.

He actively supported the reform efforts of Kogălniceanu and the Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza: the seizure of church property, the landowning of the Romanian peasants and the democratization of the electoral law.

[6] Rakovski also claimed to defend the rights of the Bulgarians and Romanians against the Ottoman Empire and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, and advocated rapprochement between the two peoples.

[6] From the very beginning, Badushtnost encountered financial difficulties and obstacles from Hristo Georgiev, Georgi Atanasovich and other wealthy Bulgarians in Romania who did not share Rakovski's revolutionary thoughts and support for Cuza's reforms.