This is great, the more space exploration and returning to the moon, the better. Especially coming from other countries. I hope that as more and more countries reach the moon and develop the engineering and materials ability to do so, that it will catch on in the American media. From there, I would hope that people start to question what we've been doing with our Space Program, hopefully to the point where Politicians have to allocate more money for it to please their constituents.
We just sent an unmanned mission to Mars. I don't think the Russians sending one to the moon is going to embarrass our space program any. They're NASA and they know it. Russia (and China) doing more in space is great, but not because it's going to start another space race.