🇷🇺 Russia’s spending on science has fallen below the levels of Egypt and Malaysia.

Domestic spending on research and development in Russia amounted to just 0.97% of GDP, according to the annual report of the HSE University. This figure is nearly six times lower than that of Israel — the global leader in science spending — as well as South Korea, Taiwan, the United States, Japan, and other countries.

✍️🇭🇺 In just over 50 hours, we’ll know the results of the parliamentary elections in Hungary. I can’t wait :)

🇷🇺 Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov says Kirill Dmitriev is not negotiating a Ukraine peace deal during his upcoming U.S. visit.

He states that Dmitriev’s role is focused on U.S.–Russia economic cooperation, adding that Moscow is seeking a long-term settlement rather than a ceasefire.

🇬🇧👤🏿👤🏽 In 1987, there were four members of parliament in the British Parliament of non-British ethnicity, and now there are 90.

✍️🇪🇺🇺🇸 NATO is a huge scam. When the alliance was created, it was supposed to be purely a defensive alliance, not an aggressor starting wars as a backer of American imperialism.

Currently, NATO is a useless institution whose mechanism serves to finance and sustain the declining American empire.

This is quite typical for empires — when they decline, they start demanding more money from their vassals (see the requirement to increase military spending to 5% of GDP).

Their political and military actions become aggressive — look at the last year of the US — and yet their influence is still waning (see Europe's reaction to the Jewish-American aggression against Iran and Lebanon).

We must stop spending such enormous amounts of money on American military equipment. After all, this is nothing but tribute imposed on vassals to finance and delay the empire's collapse.

Instead, those billions and billions should be allocated to the development of industry, science, technology, nuclear energy, infrastructure, and education.

🇷🇺🕊️🇱🇧 The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls on Israel to immediately stop its attacks on Lebanon.

☦️The administration would like to wish all Orthodox Christians a peaceful Great Friday, hoping all will take this time to reflect upon Christ's sacrifice, the "God that became Man in order that Man may become God"

In light of the Announciation which was earlier this week, I thought it appropriate to share these words which we chant in church today, so that we may remember the important role of the Virgin Mary, that said "yes" to the Angel despite knowing she will have to see her Son be crucified for the sake of the world:

Seeing her own Lamb led to the slaughter,
Mary His Mother followed Him with the other woman and in her grief she cried:
“Where dost Thou go, my Child? Why dost Thou run so swiftly? Is there another wedding in Cana, and art Thou hastening there, to turn the water into wine?
Shall I go with Thee, my Child, or shall I wait for Thee?
Speak some word to me, O Word; do not pass me by in silence. Thou hast preserved me in virginity, and Thou art my Son and God"

🇸🇰🇪🇺🇷🇺 The main problem with the EU is that it’s a good project, but it’s in the wrong hands.

We don’t have our own internal strategy. We’re obsessed with Russia and nothing else. That’s the only thing you hear all the time. This isn’t the EU we knew. It’s a war cabinet. We meet and talk: how much money, how many weapons…

The EU has no foreign policy of its own. If, in case of the Ukrainian war, we’re ready to impose every possible sanction, then regarding the situation in Gaza, we’re unable to develop a common position. After all, you know what happened and is happening in Gaza.

Why are there no sanctions against Israel like those against Russia?

- Prime Minister of Slovakia Fico

✍️🇸🇰 I didn't know that Robert Fico reads The Europe Update😁, but I'm glad that everything I write here has been said by someone who is listened to around the world.

🇵🇱 The Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs has announced that a fully Polish and secure messenger on Polish servers for public administration employees has just been created and is entering the testing phase.

🇪🇸🇱🇧⚔️🇮🇱 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says that the genocide from Gaza cannot be allowed to repeat itself in Lebanon.

He calls on the European Union to suspend the association agreement with Israel.