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Interview with Stephen Cohen

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Published 10 December, 2008, 08:45

Washington’s policy towards Russia endangers U.S. national security, says renowned Russian studies scholar, Stephen Cohen. He says relations between the two are now worse then during the Cold War, and Obama’s administration is unlikely to change that.

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