It is the US and the media and political establishment that is stuck in Cold War with its constant terminology and statements with Cold War personalities involved in US think tanks, media pundits and government officials determining US foreign policy. @Sasha How is RT not a real news service? CNN like the coverage so much of bombed out South Ossetia they took it and said it was Gori in Georgia. Russia either Putin or Medvedev have never mentioned or referenced a sphere of influence this is a western media and political reference. It seems the US sphere of influence is across the globe in Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Europe even telling the EU to accept Turkey. It is the US and the EU that references a sphere of influence and makes an effort to destabilise countries that don’t suit there agenda through NGO’s and in some cases as the case of Russia, former Yugoslavia and Bolivia through separatism and terrorism. It is Soros, the former Oligarchs, the CIA/MI6 and the EU outfits that are interfering in the internal affairs of countries bring about “colour revolutions” where western aligned media and investors by up the media and install anti-Russia regimes in Georgia and Ukraine. Used as a proxy to attack Russia just like they did Japan in 1904. The same outfits run operations in Russia giving financial assistance, running alternative media and training groups in political activism to any and all opposition in Russia which is illegal under US law. During the 90’s the entire economic, media and political system was controlled by ethnic minority and a mafia Oligarchy who were citizens of Israel and had no loyalty to the US. It is US policy stated in think tanks, policy papers and books to treat Russia as an African colony where its resources are to be firmly under western control, no regional alliances can be form to offset US domination of Eurasia and that Russia is not a country but a series of states were separatism is to be supported as long as its located near energy corridors and natural resources and is pro US. From Brezinskis book the Grand Chessboard “Two basic steps are thus required: first, to identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the international distribution of power and to decipher the central external goals of their respective political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking to attain them;… second, to formulate specific U.S. policies to offset, co-opt, and/or control the above…” (p. 40) “To put it in a terminology that harkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.” (p.40) Russia has a rightful objection to have the largest military regime which supported Islamic terrorism and work with KLA terrorists in Kosovo creating vassal states where natural resources and energy corridors are firmly under US control and installing a missile system targeted towards her that can wipe out St Petersburg and Moscow in a matter of minutes and the agreements signed by Russia and US since the fall of the USSR on NATO expansion, ABM treaty as been broken by the US. Obama is just a puppet of Brezinski where he appoints his staff members. I guess it’s just a coincidence that nearly all of Obama’s staff members were involved in supporting terrorism and the dismantlement of Yugoslavia and the Brezinski clan in senior positions in media, foreign policy in Europe towards Russia and overseeing Coloured revolutions in Ukraine, Georgia and Central Asia. The US like other western countries media, political, financial and academic establishment is dominated by an ethnic minority who you have to seek approval before standing a chance of running for office. The US is one of the lest politically representative countries in the world were 2 parties dominate the politics who agree more than disagree on topics like immigration, foreign policy, etc.