This is the power of not funding your space program and actively destroying your own educational system, which is where things like engineers and scientists come from in the first place.
Gee whiz, maybe we should have been properly funding our space program all of these years instead of wasting it on making the military industrial complex filthy fucking rich and the world less secure overall?
Bigotry aside, that seems like a wildly unenforceable law: What are they going to do? Go house to house to make sure people aren't praying the wrong way?
For Russia? IDK, seems a little unusual, they're not exactly on the cutting edge of medicine. Also, any claim Putin makes should probably be treated with extreme skepticism.
You rang?