This is not your daddy's Russia anymore.  The Communist party lost control when the old Soviet Union crumbled under the severe dead- weight of socialism's very best attempt at a "worker's paradise".  Vladimir Putin was born and raised in that  horrible system and totally repudiated it.  He is not a Communist. He's hate Communism.   He hate terrorism as well.  We fought a Cold War against Soviet Communism and we beat them.  When socialists in this country were screaming about nuclear winter and staging die-ins outside the White House, Ronald Reagan was telling Communist Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!"   The Berlin Wall.. Wasn't long after that speech, the Wall came tumbling down. Poland became free and the sick beast of socialistic despotism died.     So no, I don't worry about Russia.  I worry more about the  threats inside our borders from those who would happily lead us down a dingy road to repudiated and  failed socialistic idea of "paradise".