The Dark Double: Us Media, Russia, and the Politics of ValuesAlthough many observers argue that US Russia relations are a simple reflection of elites' political and economic preferences in both countries, these preferences tend to arise from pre existing belief systems that are deeply rooted in the public and accentuated by mass media. In Dark Double, Andrei P. Tsygankov focuses on the driving power of values and media, in addition to political and economic interests, in structuring US Russia relations. By