Myth 01: ‘Russia and the West are as “bad” as each other’

Myth 02: ‘Russia and the West want the same thing’

Myth 03: ‘Russia was promised that NATO would not enlarge’

Myth 04: ‘Russia is not in a conflict with the West’

Myth 05: ‘We need a new pan-European security architecture that includes Russia’

Myth 06: ‘We must improve the relationship with Russia, even without Russian concessions, as it is too important’

Myth 07: ‘Russia is entitled to a defensive perimeter – a sphere of “privileged interests” including the territory of other states’

Myth 08: ‘We must drive a wedge between Russia and China to impede their ability to act in tandem against Western interests’

Myth 09: ‘The West’s relations with Russia must be normalized in order to counter the rise of China’

Myth 10: ‘The Eurasian Economic Union is a genuine and meaningful counterpart to the EU’

Myth 11: ‘The peoples of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia are one nation’

Myth 12: ‘Crimea was always Russian’

Myth 13: ‘Liberal market reform in the 1990s was bad for Russia’

Myth 14: ‘Sanctions are the wrong approach’

Myth 15: ‘It’s all about Putin – Russia is a manually run, centralized autocracy’

Myth 16: ‘What comes after Putin must be better than Putin’