Russia’s unilateral annexation of Crimea and support for separatists in eastern Ukraine have ruptured its relations with the West, and Putin has intentionally recreated a Cold War atmosphere by touting Russia’s “conservative values” as an ideological counterweight to the American-led liberal world order.
Односторонняя аннексия Россией Крыма и её поддержка сепаратистов в восточной Украине испортили отношения страны с Западом.