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Russian aggression or the portrayal of Russia as an aggressive actor has been the subject of political analysis. The term is common term in Western media where it is used to criticize Russia. It has been used to refer to both Catherine the Great's 18th century agenda and 21st century Russian policies. The use of the concept has been challenged, for example in the case of the 2008 Russo-Georgian War which escalated not due "Russian aggression" but due to Georgian activity in South Ossetia. Further the whole concept has been claimed to be a myth. In the 1990s supporters of NATO expansion into Eastern Europe claimed this would diminish "Russian aggression".

The post-Maidan conflict in the Ukraine is usually blamed on "Russian aggression". NATO-sponsored analysts have described what they call a cybenetic "Russian aggression" against the Ukraine in the 2010s.

"the so-called Testament of Peter the Great continued to circulate, seeming to present Russia's conquests of the eighteenth century as proof that its tsar aspired to world domination."

- Emanuel Sarkisyanz