I agree that spending on education should be paramount but without an economy to sustain educated and skilled labour, we'll eventually see brain drain like ex-USSR countries during the late-80's to 90's. So everything has to be balanced. I don't like how every 2-3 years the MoEducation changes...
TL; DR: Need bigger budgets cause Russia with their soaring economic prowess with largest military budget in the world is gonna attack Europe cause they have nothing better to do than trying to make mainland Britain their next Sevastopol.
No. I think it's a win-win for Russia. If by this account (that tired and fatigued U.S. pilots and drone operators are the reason)(yeah, right!) :
Russians knew beforehand and actually helped U.S. Now the balls rolling on Uncle Sam's court. A strategy to shoot down further ceasefire attempts...
Russia: Hmmm... I don't condone this hacking but the evidence this espionage group is releasing is highly informative. We will help investigate in any way. (mentally laughs inside)
China: :| *poker face*
Russia: Do you want shashlik and pop corn, friend? Or maybe vodka?
China: *looks...
lol. Almost all of the medal winning athletes are taking "medicine" for "health reasons", you would think why not let them compete in para-olympics or create another able-bodied-but-unhealthy olympic games just for them :v And it's funny to see most "reputable" media houses outright ignore the...
Well, at least you agree that all the war against terrorists your country has been conducting is all just a farce. Good, good. Acknowledgement is the first path to enlightenment. thumb up from brother country!