You are missing the longer range picture here. The EU is firmly socialist and has been dubbed "Soviet Europe" by none other that Gorbachev. And we are currently fighting Russia when we take on al-Qaeda. Russia is behind 9-11!
No, Russia was not responsible for 911. Its birch paranoia. And Russia wasn't responsible for staging the Beslan massacre, it really happened. Russia is now surrounded by former republics and sattelite states that have no intention of being controlled again. Russia can't find its ass with both hands.