Russia, buoyed by record prices for the oil it exports, is no longer prepared to play the junior partner.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev won a Nobel Peace Prize for helping thaw relations between Moscow and Washington. Now he is warning that the two countries could slide into a new Cold War.
After more than a decade when the relationship between Moscow and Washington was nearly always upbeat, the mood in the two capitals has turned «sour,» according to one Western diplomat.
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