Since then Russia has continuously had the Ottoman turks, the Turkic Central Asians as their enemy
In the 1700s they fought 7 wars with the Turks and Iranis, pushing them back slowly
In fact Russia right from 1453 saw itself as the successor to the Byzantine Empire hence locked in a holy war with the Turks. They believed this right until World War I, when one of their aims was to conquer constantinople.
RaisingCain -- I'm sorry but political Islam is the invention of Mohammed
Islam has been political right since its inception. Islam has continuously been against the US and its allies, even before the USA came into being
While all that is true, the fact remains that many terrorist/Islamic leaders and movements have been agents of Moscow, and today there exists a not so secret alliance between the Islamo-Marxists and the international communist movement, which, by the way, still lives in Moscow through the “former” KGB and communist party members who have claimed conversions to being mild-mannered politicians.
This is a good article on the subject:
http://leninandsharia.com/docs/preobrazhensky.pdf