1. At least 89 people have been killed by the U.S. MLRS in Donbass. The number of casualties in the Ukrainian New Year’s night strike against Russian troops has grown to 89 servicemen, Russian MoD announced on January 4.

1. Deliberate AFU strike: one minute after midnight on January 1. 63 Russian troops have been killed by a Ukrainian missile strike, Moscow confirmed on January 2. The bombardment hit a temporary vocational school used by the Russian forces in Donbass.

1. President Putin’s New Year Address to the Nation. On December 31, 2022 at 23.21. Moscow time President Vladimir Putin made traditional Address to the Nation on the eve of the New year (full text is below).

The US-led collective West declared war on Russia long ago, most notably, after the 2014 coup in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Great Game TV program on Russian Federal Channel One on December 28

Стратегия государства занимает очень точное место в системе мировой и национальной политики, хотя нередко рассматривается несколько упрощенно только как способность государства (правящей элиты) эффективно распределять имеющиеся в его распоряжении ресурсы

Вышла в свет новая монография А.И Подберёзкина и О.Е. Родионова.

On December 24, Russian MoD gave its assessment of the outcome of the Ninth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) that was held in Geneva between November 28 to December, 2022.

Геополитические оппоненты хотят растащить Россию посредством украинского кризиса, тогда как цель Москвы — объединить русский народ.

1. Patriot deliveries to Ukraine will prolong its aggression, won't alter Its end. During Ukrainian President Zelensky's visit to Washington on December 21, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a $1.85 billion package of new arms assistance to Kiev, including one battery of Patriot missile system.

On December 21, President Vladimir Putin spoke at an expanded meeting of the Defense Ministry Board at the National Defense Management Center where the key areas of Army and Navy development including the Special Military Operation or SMO have been discussed.

Специальные институты создаются для того, чтобы определить, как напугать человека сильнее, устрашить, чтобы при виде американского корабля или самолета тряслись поджилки, чтобы руки слабели и противник без боя сдавал позиции.

Massive shelling of Donbass by AFU or Armed Forces of Ukraine took place between December 14-16.

ХХ и XXI века стали периодом, когда на политику и национальные стратегии государств стали оказывать мощное влияние внешние факторы – политико-дипломатические, финансово-экономические, информационно-когнитивные.