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In the years following the fall of Soviet Union and the other Communist regimes in East Europe, Russia has laboriously become a capitalist Country, despite its deep economic crisis, due to the great difficulty of creating a modern and efficient productive system and producing profits, jobs and social stability.
Still today, this objective is still very far; unemployment is very high, salaries and safety in workplaces are very scarce, local mafia controls important sectors of the economy, corruption is widespread among politicians and entrepreneurs, democracy is still very scarce under Putin's regime (already about 250 journalists "mysteriously" killed, to date).

In foreign policy, Russia had started friendly and intense economic and political relations with Western Countries but this friendship is now passing through a period of deep crisis; not anymore for ideological reasons but for political and economic contrasts and I personally think a new Cold War between Western Countries and Russia is really approaching.

Surely, the first negative fact in the relation between US and Russia was the 2nd US war in Iraq, to which Russia was very contrary; another contemporary fact was the civil war in Chechenia, the Caucasian Russian province where an independentist guerrilla and terrorism is always very active, despite many years of bloody Russian repression and war crimes against local people.

Then, the tension between Russia and Ukraine, the latter, always destabilized by a deep political contrast between pro-Russia and pro-US parties.
US and Europe have frequently accused Russia of destabilizing Ukraine, also with the recent raise of Russian natural gas prices, from which Ukraine and many European Countries are partially dependent. Russia, in fact, is one of the main fossil fuels producers of the world and this production is strictly controlled by the Government by means of the Gazprom company.
So, most of Western Europe doesn't feel very happy for this dependence and, for not to provoke reprisals from Russia, Europe never adopts concrete diplomatic actions against human rights violations in Chechenia and in Russia.

Another friction cause is the technical and political support Russia gives Iran for its nuclear program, strongly suspected by the West to have nuclear weapons as the main objective of the Iranian regime.
Just Iranian Prime Minister Ahmadinejad has already claimed many times to be favourable to Israel destruction and he doesn't mitigate its hostility to the US

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