Meanwhile, as obama/soetoro plays tiddly-winks:
The Holy Grail for Moscow is a natural gas supply deal with China that is apparently now close after years of negotiations. If it can be signed when Putin visits China in May, he will be able to hold it up to show that global power has shifted eastwards and he does not need the West.
Putin looks to Asia as West threatens to isolate Russia
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/21/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-insight-idUSBREA2K07S20140321
ONGC, Russia’s Rosneft may join forces on oil flows
http://in.reuters.com/.../russia-rosneft-oil-india...
Meanwhile, we continue to be totally reliant on the Russians to get our astronauts into space.