 Gedeon stated that Nicolaides obtained 5,000 gold francs from the Ambassador of Russia to the Ottoman Empire, Ignatieff, to fund this publication, and that he did not give much of this away to other parties.According to Gedeon, Theodoros Kasapis wrote in "Diogenis" that the Russian ambassador had bribed Nicolaides.Nicolaides also applied to make his own Karamanli Turkish publication, "Asya", but was denied.