> On 26 February 2022, Rogozin posted a video threatening to leave US astronaut Mark T. Vande Hei in space and separate Russian modules of the space station altogether.[29][30] In March, Roscosmos produced a mocked-up video portraying this, with cosmonauts saying goodbye to Vande Hei and detaching the Russian segment from the ISS. [0]
For a woman in the similar age, I would say she is more deserving of Nobel Peace Prize than Malala Yousafzai.
The risk that Malala takes in advocating for women right in Islamic countries is admirable, there is no denying in that. However, her impact are minuscule compared to Alexandra's in the big picture of progression as a human race. Malala's activism has not changed much on the course of women right in the countries where religion governs the lives from family to governance.
Don't know about EU in general.. but my articles published in Springer is open access with the German initiative DEAL. I don't know if that counts as open access as the German government is the one paying for it.
So the taxpayer - i.e., you (and 82 million other people) - is paying... and your salary was probably already paid by the government if you are working at a university?
I can imagine better ways to spend the money than buying open access right from publishers - though the current German government certainly has found even worse ways to waste money...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Rogozin#2022_Russian_In...