From some non-random Google search entries. As the UK prepares to announce arrest warrants for the KGB/FSB/SVR/Vympel (whatever)agents who spiked Alexander Litvinenko's tea with Polonium-210, check out the defiant neo-Sovietism in the second entry and the actions reported in the others. RIA Novosti doesn't speak without the regime's tacit permission or active direction:

Russia seeks first-strike capacity against US bases in Europe
Jane's, UK - 2 hours ago
Another Russian defense analyst, Alexander Pikayev, acknowledged at the time that Russian forces might use tactical nuclear weapons to eliminate threatening ...

Sudan using Chinese, Russian weapons in
Brisbane Times, Australia - May 8, 2007
In a 24-page report obtained by AFP, London-based Amnesty provided photographs of Russian and Chinese warplanes it said were deployed at Nyala airport in ...

No, a Cold War isn't necessary, that is, if the Bush Administration stops the Neocon abuse of the military and puts it back on a firm, rebuilding, peace-through-strength constitutional defense posture. This posture would engage and rebuild alliances while offering strength and resource trade that provides an alternative to Russian energy. The alternative to wasteful adventurism must come from the economic core of the US and prepare for decisive victory in last resort wars, not endless policing in OPC's (Other Peoples' Countries).

Internationalism has gone too far when both parties have the White House, but obviously the GOP neocons have been quite bad. However, they are not without their secret supporters on the left.