Andreas Umland: Europe’s top security threat – poisoned public opinion in Russia
People holding flags and placards take part in a rally and a concert by the Kremlin Wall in central Moscow on March 18, 2015, to mark one year since Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed off on the annexation of Crimea.
The Russian Federation possesses - and will continue to possess for the foreseeable future - the second-largest nuclear arsenal on Earth. Like the Soviet Union before it and the United States today, this gives Moscow an overkill capacity. As did their communist predecessors, Russia's leaders today command enough weapons of mass destruction to destroy humankind several times over.
