OP-ED

Effective anti-smoking campaigns can and do make a difference

For the first time, online services are working together to beat a government clampdown

Will the whistleblower site suddenly find itself disappeared?

Mikhail Fedotov has a tough job as the new head of the human rights council

Do Luzhkov's latest orders mean he's still in charge, or is it time to go home?

Is it acceptable for millions to stand on the sidelines while only a handful stand up for their beliefs?

Yevgeny Chichvarkin steps up his campaign for rehabilitation, appealing from exile to President Medvedev to help a jailed former business partner

Xenia Luchenko
RussiaProfile.org
History for second graders still mixes patriotism and Communism

Russians and Americans are increasingly concerned about new waves of border crossings – but the people already across are surely a good part of the ‘immigration problem’ themselves

The Vera Trifonova case is another tragic example of systemic corruption

A US-based agency finds Russia’s news environment bad, with worse to come

One of the skills that Vladimir Putin has honed over the last decade is to know when to play the Gazprom card