Russia Pushes Through The Back Door

Russia has been feeling increasingly surrounded by the United States and it's tentacles of influence.

With NATO creeping ever-closer to their western border, and a strong and growing American military presence to the east in Afghanistan, Moscow felt it was time to send some Russian steel in the other direction.

They've sent Peter the Great. The Tsar died in 1725, but his name now adorns the flagship of the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet; a nuclear-powered battle cruiser loaded with the finest military hardware Moscow has to offer.

Peter the Great is now glaring northward from a dock in Venezuela — not a Latin American country with which Washington has entirely congenial relations at present.

Reporter David Grout, from CBS News' Moscow bureau, has the story: