Russia

It has been a turbulent year in Russian-Kazakh relations. Russia’s oil rich neighbour, which straddles central Asia and eastern Europe, started the year by asking for Russia’s help in restoring stability after protests erupted in its major cities.

Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage as Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine, has threatened that Russia will “make use of all weapon systems available to us” if Russia’s territorial integrity is threatened.

As 2022 drew to a close, Hungary and the European Union made a modicum of progress in their long-running battle of wills.

In early 2011, the Arab Spring tore through Tunisia, then Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen, and Jordan. Syria stood at the precipice as people rose up against the dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad, who had ruled since 2000.

The Mosin-Nagant rifle, mass-produced for the Russian and Soviet Union armed forces in 1891, remains a legendary and iconic firearm today.

Volodymyr Zelensky has been on his travels this week, leaving Ukraine for the first time since the invasion to fly to the US to meet with Joe Biden and address a joint sitting of Congress.

Largely overshadowed by the war in Ukraine, Syria remains a deeply divided and violent country, where military conflict has recently reignited.

Since the invention of nuclear weapons, there have been numerous reports of almost incidents that almost initiated World War III.

Pavel Antov, a Russian man who made his fortune in the sausage industry, died recently after falling from a hotel in India. The exact cause of that fall is open to a great deal of speculation.

It appears that a violation of the convention has occurred, which prohibits destroying an ethnic, racial, national, or religious group.

Months into the war, we’re ending the year with the Ukraine-Russia discourse still happening.

Despite Vladimir Putin’s assertion, peace talks are unlikely to happen in the near future.