In this corpus, the words Russia and Russians had very similar significant collocations. All instances were negative, linking Russia and/or Russians to China, Iran and destruction in the region. The word Russians had more significant collocations (29) than Russia (26), and had more links to other nationals, Germans, Americans, Turks, English, Majus, etc. All instances were negative, portraying Russians to be part of a larger network of allies set on destroying or controlling the Middle East.