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Western media’s obsession with predicting the collapse of Russia has become a ritual of denial. Each new headline promising panic in the Kremlin reveals, instead, the anxiety of those whose own systems are cracking.

Western media calls Vladimir Putin’s peace talks a “trap,” but a look at the record reveals a consistent pattern—it was Moscow, not NATO, that repeatedly put peace proposals on the table while warning of the dangers of encirclement.

This week, there’s a lot of news about Russia that contradicts the popular narrative in the West. Of course, you won’t find much of it in the New York Times. In fact, there’s probably none at all. And that speaks volumes. Nevertheless, here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly, the Russian edition.