It has a strong reputation for thoughtful, analytical, and unbiased articles by major Russian scholars and PhD students.

Since that time it has been the main Soviet and later Russian center of research of American and Canadian foreign and internal policy.

[2] By the late 1980s, the institute had a staff of 300 specialists and published a monthly scholarly journal, U.S.A.: Economics, Politics, Ideology.

Its specialists were responsible for providing unbiased information to Soviet top leaders on the economies, and political and military development of the United States.

U.S.-based critics of the US and Canada Institute accused it of being an active measures initiative whose purpose was to spread disinformation in the United States.