 After the closure of "Akinchi" in 1877 Zardabi was exiled to his native village.In 1905, however, he resumed his cultural activities by becoming a reporter for the progressive "Hayat" newspaper.In his articles, he called upon cultural unification of Muslims in Russia and the establishment of a unified Turkic language that will ensure progress and social development by helping Muslims move away from the tradition of writing in Persian and Arabic which, in Zardabi's view, were used by the power-hungry Muslim clergy to spread reactionism and conservatism.