Leon Aron at the American Enterprise Institute has a new brief out on Russia following the Summit.  Here’s just one section from the report on the use of anti-American propaganda by the Kremlin.

The Kremlin’s valiant defense of Russia against alleged plots from the outside evolved into one of the key legitimizing tools of the regime, and deafening and primitive anti-American propaganda became the staple of the state-owned or state-controlled national media. In the words of a Russian observer, the United States is “used as a bogeyman for domestic political purposes.”[16] Presiding over the May 2007 military parade to mark the sixty-second anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War (World War II), Putin likened the unnamed perpetrators of “new threats” to Russia to the Third Reich because of “the same desire to impose diktat on the world.”[17] Everyone in Moscow that day understood the evildoer to be the United States.