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The article focuses on the impact a Russian amended law concerning state secrets is having on science publishing by Russian scientists. It states President Vladimir Putin used a decree in May 2015 expanding the scope of a law requiring scientists get permission from the Federal Security Service prior to publishing results which could have industrial or military applications. It reports Russian universities are requiring scientists seek approval to the publication of any findings without exception.

Reports that Russian researcher Igor Sutyagin and two of his colleagues were detained on October 27, 1999 by the Russian Federal Security Service. Searching of Sutyagin's apartment in Obninsk, Russia; Removal of papers and computers; Work nature of Sutyagin and colleague Joshua Handler.

The article offers information on the blast which happened in Tunguska, Russia. It states that the approximate site of the blast's epicenter is now marked by a totem pole that researchers have offered to Agdy, the god of thunder in local mythology. It is also posed that days after the explosion, A. V. Voznesenskij started collecting accounts of the event. Among those who offered their account of the event to Voznesenskij is G. K. Kulesh, who said that a meteorite has fallen in the site. The varying positions of scientists concerning this event were also mentioned.