@davemauFIVE@FightBell Romania. The offender is quite "famous", a corrupt politicia that was found drunk driving during a police filter.
After he got punched down, it was arrested and future convict for 21 months in prison, under probation.
In a country where one can go to jail for criticizing Putin’s policies, a well-respected Russian economist Abel Aganbegyan spoke up about the pathetic state of the Russian economy.
Please see a few takeaways from Aganbegyan’s speech below or watch the video where he goes into further very interesting details.
“Because for 34 years of the existence of the new Russia, according to Rosstat our GDP has grown by 37%. 1% per year. In comparison to 1990.
Developing countries grew 3 to 6 times. India 8.6 times. China 13 times. While our [economy] grew by 37%.
According to all international ratings, including welfare and economic indicators, we have gone down greatly.
Innovation-wise it's just a disaster. After 2020, out of 1658 “unicorn companies” worth more than one billion dollars at the beginning of 2025, not a single one is in Russia.
Out of the 2,500 large innovative commercial private firms in 43 countries where €35,000,000 and above is spent on research and development, only 3 are in Russia.
Our number of robots is 19 per 10,000 workers. In South Korea - it's 1014. In other developed countries it's 200 to 600.
We have 7 supercomputers while China and the USA have 150 each.
Where can we get innovative firms from if the main source of their development is venture capital, which in 2021 was 3.4 billion and now it's 270 million dollars? Not 3.4 billion.
Our global share of high-tech goods and services is 1.3% and in exports it’s 0.3%.
With such indicators, there can be no growth.”
Germany’s Chancellor Merz presented Trump the birth certificate of his German grandfather, Friedrich Trump.
It was a clever jab to remind Trump he’s a German immigrant.