Anti-Soviet sentiment used to be a powerful political unifier for the right. Fifty years later, some liberals think they can replicate that model.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/can-the-left-weaponize-russia-214751
The fear of economic destabilization that has permeated Russia since its 2014 invasion of Ukraine, which was met with crippling Western sanctions, has all but evaporated. For many Russians, the mix of nationalist euphoria, creature comforts, and domestic repression seems to be a potent elixir.
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The deployment of additional U.S. forces and other NATO units to Poland, Norway, the Baltics, and other states symbolically reinforces the West's commitment to the alliance. But countering Russia's influence will require a fundamental reformulation of EU and U.S. political strategy.
http://www.rand.org/blog/2017/02/dealing-with-a-revanchist-russia.html
http://gubernia.pskovregion.org/politics/zhyve-belarus/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-real-vladimir-putin-1486512012
http://inopressa.ru/article/08Feb2017/wsj/trump_putin1.html
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3212776
http://theins.ru/politika/44487
http://www.globalaffairs.ru/redcol/Rossiya-i-Belorussiya---novyi-etap-18574