What explains the sometimes obsessive anti-Americanism of Russian elites? (Maria Snegovaya, Brookings)

Speaking earlier this month at the Munich Security Conference, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned that his country and the West are headed towards a “new Cold War.” He criticized Western leaders’ characterization of Russia as their biggest threat and wondered aloud whether the year was 2016 or 1962.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/order-from-chaos/posts/2016/02/23-russian-elites-antiamericanism-snegovaya