Anti-Russian sentiment (or Russophobia) is a fear and/or dislike for Russia, Russians and/or Russian culture. A variety of mass culture clichés about Russia and Russians exist. Many of these stereotypes were originally developed in the Western world during the Cold War, and were primarily used as elements of political war against the Soviet Union. Some of these prejudices are still observed in the discussions of the relations with Russia.[5] Negative representation of Russia and Russians in modern popular culture is also often described as functional, as stereotypes about Russia may be used for framing reality, like creating an image of an enemy, or an excuse, or an explanation for compensatory reasons.Hollywood has been sometimes criticised for its excessive and continuous use of Russians as the villains.
On the other hand, Russian nationalists and apologists of Russian politics are sometimes criticised for using allegations of "Russophobia" as a form of propaganda to counter criticism of Russia.
PST (Pacific Standard Time) is one of the well-known names of UTC-8 time zone which is 8h. behind of UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). The time offset from UTC can be written as -08:00. It's used during the winter. During the summer PDT - Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7) is in use
