contemporary transformation of the Soviet successor states. Initially launched at American University, it developed into an editorial project linking U.S. and Russian scholars and secured the support of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, headed at the time by former Reagan adviser Jeane Kirkpatrick. It continues to be published today by George Washington University under Managing Editor Robert Orttung. 2000 - present From 2000–2004, Zlobin was founder and Editor-in-Chief of Washington ProFile, an independent digest of American news and analysis delivered to international readers on a minimal budget. Within several years of its existence Washington ProFile was distributed weekly to more than 20,000 Russian-language subscribers, and to a similar number of Chinese readers, in more than 100 countries . In 2003 the digest was listed as the second-most cited American-based news agency in the Russian mass media after CNN. Its advisory board included the future U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, then an associate professor at Stanford University, who called the news outlet “the perfect kind of low-tech democracy assistance." In the early 2000s, Zlobin became a columnist for the daily newspaper Izvestia, and from 2009–2012 he wrote a column for the Russian online journal Snob.ru. He also served on the Expert Board of the Russian news agency RIA Novosti from 2005 until its liquidation by the state in 2014. In 2008-2012, he was a permanent columnist for the newspapers Vedomosti and Rossiyskaya Gazeta, and frequently blogs for Echo of Moscow. His editorials have also appeared in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. From 2008–2009 he hosted a weekly radio show on the Russian station Silver Rain. In 2010-2011, he was co-host of the weekly radio show “Direct Contact” [Rus: «Прямой контакт»] on Vesti-FM. He also appears as a frequent guest on BBC and on the Russian political talk-show “The Duel” [Rus: «Поединок»]. Books and other publications Early works Zlobin co-authored the first non-communist high school history textbook used in Russia and other post-Soviet republics. After moving to the United States, he wrote the first study by a foreigner of U.S. President Harry S. Truman. America—What a Life! After writing a number of bestselling works on Russian and international politics, Zlobin developed a wide commercial following with the publication of a series of volumes on everyday life in the United States: America—What a Life! (2012), America: Bane of