This article deals with present-day threats from abroad to Russia’s security and offers proposals to reduce the danger they represent. The threats to Russian national security are, in the authors’ view, NATO expansion; the presence of large contingents of forces at Russian borders; claims to Russian territory and confl icts near its borders; aggravation of inter-ethnic and inter-nationality relations; violation of the integrity of the defense and an indeterminacy of the border of the Russian Federation, especially in the south and west; the spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction; and the West’s desire to establish its military and political dominance over the world as a whole and in particular regions. According to the authors, the threat to Russia’s national security forms the underlying ideology of the Western world, which is to form an archetype of the human of the future — an unthinking being, overwhelmed by unnatural instincts and dissimilar to his recent ancestors. The spiritual side of life is degraded in the Western world, notwithstanding continued attempts to impose the Western way of life on the rest of humanity.