[Marguerite]

“I’m sure the appearance of NATO AWACS has Putin absolutely terrified.”

He has more important business to attend to, like welcoming the cosmonauts who landed in Kazakhstan after a stay of more than six months aboard the International Space Station.

Russians Oleg Kotov, Sergei Ryazansky and NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins touched down in their Soyuz capsule at 32:4 GMT outside Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.

Would Obama, in retaliation for Crimea, forbid NASA to participate to ISS missions? That will show him, Putin, who’s the “boss”! I remind you that the US manned and unmanned missions to ISS rely exclusively on Russian rocketry.

[Marguerite]

Russians Oleg Kotov, Sergei Ryazansky and NASA American astronaut Mike Hopkins, who came back aboard the Soyuz TMA-10M spaceship, look happy to be back on Earth, after spending several months on ISS.

Another American, Richard Mastracchio, is now manning the ISS with the Russian Mikhail Tyurin and the Japanese Koichi Wakata.