Misperceptions make the West’s Russia policy wobbly, but it is not clear that the resulting disorientation is good for Russia.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/russia-s-dual-response-west-creates-policy-confusion
Just what the Russians had set afire at their consulate in San Francisco, a day after the State Department ordered it shuttered, remains a burning question.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/us/russian-consulate-san-francisco-burning.html
Why is the U.S. squandering its soft-power advantage on petty tit-for-tat?
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-01/travel-barriers-are-the-worst-of-the-new-cold-war
https://7days.us/aleksandr-sotnik-sovetskie-drozzi-kremlevskoj-vojny
http://www.dsnews.ua/world/putin-doigralsya-pochemu-russkoe-konsulstvo-izganyayut-iz-01092017133000
https://lb.ua/world/2017/09/01/375322_ssha_rossiya_noviy_etap.html
https://lenta.ru/news/2017/09/01/zahvat/