How Russia has come to loathe the West

In January 2015, negative perceptions of the West in Russia rose to the highest level ever recorded in the history of Russian public opinion polling.

The current antagonism is nurtured by the aggressive anti-Western propaganda that has accompanied the crisis in Ukraine since its onset in late 2013. In the quarter century of post-Soviet development, perceptions of the US and the West in general have gone through different phases, but resentment towards the West has been gradually accumulating throughout the period.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Ruxit is real: Russia’s exit from Europe http://www.europeansources.info/record/ruxit-is-real-russias-exit-from-europe/

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