This seemed like a good and interesting article, but then it ran aground on lies and fakery here:

"Russia has an increasingly hostile policy of combined aggression (in the Crimea, Eastern Ukraine, and Syria) and subversion of political institutions in Europe and the United States."

That is utter garbage.  Russia has been the target of hostility, not the aggressor.  

The U.S. and it's allies are ALL illegally operating in Syria, despite the clear objection of the sovereign government there.

The people of the eastern Ukraine Donbass region declared a completely non-violent secession only to be attacked by the neo-fascist regime in Kiev.

Crimea voted peacefully to join Russia.