About the book: 2012 / “Teaching Russia democracy is a hopeless idea. This country is too proud to sit humbly behind a desk. And the West is not suitable as a role model. Meanwhile, Russia is becoming more and more powerful. After the financial crisis, it has much larger cash reserves than before it. The West underestimates Russia, claiming that it is no longer important. Once the newspaper Die Welt came out with the headline: “We don’t need Russia anymore!” The leitmotif of this book was: “Why do we need Russia!” “We offer readers a chapter from a new book by one of the leading Western political scientists - an expert of the Council on Foreign Affairs German politician Alexander PAPA “Cold friend. Why the West needs Russia».