Russia

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.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has promised to send more troops near Nordic countries.

Japan will double its defense spending in the face of emerging threats by China, North Korea and Russia, and may even build a new aircraft carrier, but it it may be feeding the dragon it wants to defend itself from as well.