This chapter addresses Western attempts to sever academic contacts with colleagues in Russia and calls for the West to transform Russian studies. Russian academic studies were frequently presented as controlled by the “imperialist” state and lacking any independence, in part due to dependence on state funds and in part because of the already described imperialist attitude within the Russian society. This view is consistent with the Kremlin’s propaganda model, arguing that the Russian state depends on the image of foreign threats to consolidate its rule. The chapter also analyzes the argument that Russian studies in the West must be transformed and partly replaced with studies of non-Russian nationalities residing inside Russia and former Soviet states.