• Mukhtar Kholdorbekov / Reuters

    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, takes off his tie as he meets with his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev during the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, on August 12. Medvedev took off his tie after Nazarbayev told him that the CSTO summit was an informal meeting.

    Dmitry Medvedev, style guru

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    He may have made a minor fashion faux pas with the tie, but in that snazzy blue suit Dmitry Medvedev remains something of a style guru for the discerning gentleman. As his previous PhotoBlog appearances have demonstrated, he knows how to accessorize, is not afraid of a bit of make-up, and he looks just as cool in leisure wear.

  • Soyuz capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan

    Mikhail Metzel / AFP - Getty Images

    The Russian Soyuz TMA-20 space capsule lands about 150 km south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan on May 24, 2011. A Soyuz space capsule carrying an Italian, a Russian and an American back from the International Space Station (ISS) has landed safely in Kazakhstan, Russian mission control said.

    Sergei Remezov / AFP - Getty Images

    US astronaut, flight engineer Catherine "Cady" Coleman (L), Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli (R) and the Expedition 27 Commander, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev , sit inside their Soyuz TMA-20 capsule just after the landing in Kazakhstan on May 24.

    Mikhail Metzel / AP

    Russian space agency rescue team help U.S. astronaut Cady Coleman leave the capsule after Soyuz capsule's landing about 93 miles south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan, Tuesday, May 24, 2011. The Soyuz capsule carrying Italian, American and Russian back to Earth from the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan on Tuesday.

    Mikhail Metzel / Pool / EPA

    epa02748728 The International Space Station crew of US astronaut Cady Coleman Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratiev, and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli are seen after Soyuz capsule's landing 80 miles south-east of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on May 24, 2011.

     

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  • Soyuz capsule lands safely with space station crew

    Denise Chow of SPACE.com reports: A Russian Soyuz spacecraft landed in Kazakhstan today, bringing NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and two Russian cosmonauts safely back to Earth after a months-long stay at the International Space Station.

    The Soyuz TMA-01M capsule touched down in Kazakhstan about 50 miles north of the town of Arkalyk on the snowy steppes of Central Asia at about 3:54 a.m. EDT.

    Dmitry Kostyukov / AFP - Getty Images

    A Russian Soyuz capsule with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka, Alexander Kaleri and US astronaut Scott Kelly on board lands near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan on March 16. The capsule carrying the previous crew of the International Space Station (ISS) landed successfully, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.

    Onboard the Soyuz were the space station's Expedition 26 commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Russian flight engineers Oleg Skripochka and Alexander Kaleri. They landed under harsh conditions, with ankle-deep snow and 30-knot winds reported by recovery crews.

    "The Soyuz landed on its side, but in good shape," NASA spokesman Rob Navias said from the landing zone.

    The wind apparently dragged the spacecraft by its parachute about 75 feet (nearly 23 meters), Navias added.

    "You would think that was a scene out of the North Pole," Navias said, calling it "viciously cold" at one point. "It was a bull's-eye landing under very harsh conditions."

    Dmitry Kostyukov / AFP - Getty Images

    A Russian Soyuz capsule with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka, Alexander Kaleri and US astronaut Scott Kelly on board lands near the town of Arkalyk in northern Kazakhstan on March 16.

    Kelly is the twin brother of fellow NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, who is set to command the space shuttle Endeavour on its final mission to the space station next month. Mark Kelly is the husband of injured Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who is recovering after being shot in the head during a Jan. 8 attack in Tucson that injured 13 people and killed six others.

    Scott Kelly has said that he hopes to help his sister-in-law with her recovery when he returns home to Houston.

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  • Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters

    A hawk attacks a rabbit during an annual traditional hunting competition near the village of Uzynagash outside Almaty, Feb. 12. Kazakhstan's national sport of Sayat - or hunting with birds of prey - is popular in the Central Asian state. Hunters all over the country arrived for the annual competition.

    A hawk takes a rabbit at a hunting festival in Kazakhstan

    By Katie Cannon, Senior Multimedia Editor

    Although I know that this would happen in the wild, I can't help but think, "Poor bunny."

  • Sergei Remezov / Reuters

    International Space Station (ISS) crew member European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Angelo Nespoli sits inside Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft in the assembling hangar at the Baikonur cosmodrome Dec. 4, in Kazakhstan. The crew of Nespoli, NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman and Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev is due to travel by Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station on Dec.15.

    Soyuz crew prepares for trip to International Space Station

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