Near the earth at the altitude we currently work at, the atmosphere will eventually slow you down and grant you a fiery burial. But in deep space yeah you could become an space mummy floating aimlessly for potentially millions or billions of years. While our planet will erase almost every visible trace of us in a mere few thousands.

Maybe you can buy a degree for a few thousand rubles...

It's not tense, it's catastrophic. Most soldiers have no food, no training, no orders beside dig here and wait for death, we've seen mobiks with effin Mosin Nagants FFS! They're loosing ground everyday, and the domestic situation isn't better with a tanking economy, hundreds of thousands fleeing the country, political and civil unrest and diplomatic isolation even from their allies. The emperor is naked and his empire is on fire.