Has Russia become dangerous, adversarial and increasingly undemocratic?

MONTREAL — When I picked up a copy of The Globe and Mail last week and read that Canada had recognized Kosovo’s independence, all I could think was: Good for Ottawa. It was no doubt a difficult decision but the right one.
Predictably, Serbian Ambassador Dusan Batakovic threw a fit, issued the exaggerated statement that [...]

When Kosovo recently asserted its independence from Serbia, I listened with great interest and anticipated intense political fireworks. The grousing, public protests in various countries, charges of “fake state” and outrageous burning of the U.S. embassy in Belgrade provide ample evidence of the critics’ ire.
But their discontent and motivations are misguided. An independent, sovereign Kosovo [...]