Its aim is to spread critical thinking, popularize science, educate the general public, promote and teach critical and skeptical thinking skills and create a platform for science and skepticism communication.

From 2014 onward, local groups of the Skeptic Society were also founded, and regular meetings held, in Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Voronezh, Ufa, Samara, Almaty, Pavlodar, Kharkiv, and Kazan.

[3] On 25 October 2014, the first Skeptic Society conference, Skepticon (Скептикон), took place in Moscow.

Despite the fact that there is a lot of skepticism-related information available in English, the society decided not to limit its activity just to translating this information, and started producing its own podcast Skeptik (Russian: Скептик, "Skeptic").

The focus of the podcast became skepticism-related issues that are relevant for Russian society.