Article: Western negative perceptions of Russia: "the cold war mentality" over five hundred years.

In a recent CNN interview, former National Security Advisor and professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Studies, Zbigniew Brzezinski, compared the Russian military's indiscriminate bombing of the Chechen capital, Grozny, in late 1999 and early 2000 to Stalin's murder of 15,000 Polish officers at Katyn in 1940. He called the Russian war in Chechnya "genocide" and Russia's then acting-president Vladimir Putin "a brute ... a form of a political gangster." (1) In an article in the New York Times published three months earlier, Brzezinski argued that Russia's ruling elite "is still driven by imperial nostalgia" and ...

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