World results 2022
IRINA MIROCHNIK
World results 2022
IRINA MIROCHNIK
2022 can be characterized by the entry of the world into the acute phase of the crisis of the local world war!
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The year 2022 can be characterized by the entry of the world into an acute phase of the crisis of a local world war, which looks like a Russian-Ukrainian war, but in reality is a global one, affects all countries of the world, all spheres of life, radically changes the trends of the present and determines the future.
It is possible that the Russian-Ukrainian war is only the first act of a future world war with nuclear confrontation.
The main trends of 2022: Russia’s war against Ukraine involving all countries of the world, including China and India; aggravation of many local conflicts in the world; the bankruptcy of most of the country’s elites; the crisis of all supranational structures – the UN, NATO, the WTO and the OSCE; decline in development in many areas of engineering and technology; stagnation of world culture; replacement of the world coronavirus infodemic with the world infodemic of war; deterioration of the spiritual state of the world community.
Thematic chronology of events
2022 began on February 24 with Russia’s war against Ukraine. That is, for almost two months in 2022, the old year 2021 ended in an event-discursive way.
On February 21, Russian leader Vladimir Putin recognized the pro-Russian separatists in two Ukrainian regions and sent troops for “peacekeeping functions.”
22 February US President Joe Biden announces new sanctions against Russia, stating that its latest actions in Ukraine amount to “the start of a Russian invasion.”
February 24 Russian leader Vladimir Putin announces the start of a “special military operation” in Ukraine to “demilitarize” and “denazify” the country, minutes before Russia launches a full-scale pre-dawn invasion by land, air and sea, bombing several cities amid international condemnations. This seriously changes the agenda of the next days and months in the world.
On February 26, the Russian military destroyed a dam in the Kherson region, which cut off the water supply to the North Crimean Canal.
February 27 Countries impose sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine; The EU closes the airspace for Russian aircraft, many Russian banks are excluded from the global payment system Swift.
28 February Russia shells the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv as a 64-kilometer-long Russian military convoy approaches Kyiv.
February 28 At the suggestion of Russia, the first round of talks between Russia and Ukraine took place in the Gomel region (Belarus).
March 2 Russian troops occupied Kherson.
On March 3, Russian troops captured the Ukrainian Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
On March 7, the UN Refugee Agency reports that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to the flight of 1.7 million people from the country, 406 civilian deaths, 801 injured. Now there are about 6 million in Europe and 2 million in Russia, from where a return before the end of the war is hardly possible.
On March 8, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky refers to Winston Churchill in a virtual speech to the British Parliament: “We will not lose. We will fight to the end.”
March 9 Russian airstrikes target a hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, where at least three people are killed as attempts to create a humanitarian corridor out of the city fail.
14 March Civilians were able to leave the heavily bombed Ukrainian city of Mariupol for the first time amid 2,500 deaths and a humanitarian crisis in the city.
March 16 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky remotely addresses the US Congress for further assistance against the Russian invasion.
March 20 Intense fighting in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol continues as Russian troops surround the city, trapping 300,000 people.
On March 23, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken officially states that members of the Russian armed forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine.
26 March US President Joe Biden speaks of Russian President Vladimir Putin: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power” in an unscripted speech in Poland.
March 29 Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul. After these negotiations, Russia withdrew its troops from Kyiv and the Kyiv region. However, the negotiations did not continue and did not lead to anything else.
March 29 As a major victory for Ukraine, Russia announces the withdrawal of its heavily battered forces from the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
April 2 Ukraine liberates the entire Kyiv region from the retreating Russian troops.
4 April The Ukrainian government launches a war crimes investigation after 410 civilians were found killed following the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kyiv.
On April 5, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky calls The UN Security Council will act against Russia by accusing the Russian military of the worst war crimes since World War II, including executions, rape and torture of civilians.
On April 11, the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol said more than 10,000 civilians had died in the Russian siege, and the death toll was likely double that, as bodies were “strewn with carpets in the streets.”
April 14 The Russian ship Moskva, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, sank in the Black Sea during the invasion of Ukraine amid conflicting reports. After some time, it was established that the Ukrainian military with the participation of the Americans sunk it with missiles.
On April 18, Russia launches a major new offensive in the Donbas during its invasion of Ukraine.
April 26 Russia says it will cut off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria after the countries refused to pay in rubles, aggravating the confrontation in the field of energy supply between Russia and Europe.
April 26 The World Bank warns that the war in Ukraine will cause the “biggest commodity shock” since the 1970s, with large economic and humanitarian consequences.
April 28 Russian missiles hit Kyiv during a visit by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
On May 1, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview on Italian television that Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood,” which outraged Israel.
May 1 Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi leads a surprise congressional delegation to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
15 May The Finnish government announces that it intends to apply for NATO membership following the Russian invasion of Ukraine that ended decades of neutrality.
16 May Sweden officially announces that it will seek to join NATO after 200 years of neutrality following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On May 16, Ukraine announces the completion of the combat mission in Mariupol, evacuating the last of its forces from the Azovstal steel plant, a symbol of Ukrainian resistance. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that about 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered from Azovstal. According to UN estimates, as a result of the fighting in the city, up to 90% of residential buildings and up to 60% of private houses were damaged or destroyed.
On May 23, US President Joe Biden declares for the first time that he is ready to use force to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion.
May 23 US President Joe Biden and countries including India, South Korea, and Japan form an Asia-Pacific Economic Union in Tokyo to counter China’s influence.
May 24 The leaders of America, Australia, India and Japan meet in Tokyo to focus on Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific.
25 May Russian troops shell the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to capture the entire Lugansk region.
On May 30, the European Union agreed on a plan to block two-thirds of Russian oil.
June 9 At an exhibition in Moscow marking the 350th anniversary of the birth of the first Russian emperor, Peter the Great, Russian leader Vladimir Putin compares himself to Tsar Peter the Great, who conquered the Baltic coast.
18 June Lithuania bans goods subject to EU sanctions through its territory and into the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
June 25 The eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk is captured by Russian troops after several weeks of fighting in the area.
June 27 A Russian missile attack on a Ukrainian shopping center in Kremenchuk, which housed 1,000 people, killed at least 20 people and injured at least 56.
July 9 A Russian airstrike on a residential building in Chasovoy Yar in eastern Ukraine killed at least 47 people.
On July 13, North Korea recognized the independence of the DNR and LNR. Ukraine severed diplomatic relations with North Korea.
July 20 According to a senior Russian diplomat, Russia is now seeking to expand its territory to the south as well as to the east of Ukraine.
26 July Russia announces that it will leave the International Space Station at the end of 2024.
30 July President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky calls for mandatory evacuation of civilians from the east of the Donetsk region amid heavy fighting.
August 1 The first grain ship leaves Ukraine’s port of Odessa in a UN-brokered deal, breaking a months-long Russian blockade to help reduce global shortages.
On August 3, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi became the first politician to visit Taiwan in 25 years, drawing condemnation from the Chinese Communist Party.
On August 18, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary-General António Guterres warn of “another Chernobyl” due to the fighting at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant at the Lviv summit.
On August 20, Darya Dugin, daughter of far-right political philosopher Alexander Dugin, was killed in a car bomb explosion in the Moscow region, Russia. Inconclusive about Russia’s accusations and the fact that the case was quickly hushed up speaks of an attempt in Russia to make a sacred sacrifice in order to accuse Ukraine.
On August 30, Ukraine launches a counteroffensive against Russia in the south of the Kherson region.
August 30 In Moscow, at the age of 92, the last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, died.
2 September Russian state energy company Gazprom indefinitely suspends natural gas supplies to Germany and Europe via the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline amid accusations of weaponizing its energy supplies.
On September 10, the Armed Forces of Ukraine recaptured the city of Izyum from the Russian troops.
On September 11, the Ukrainian army launched a counteroffensive in the Russian-occupied Kharkiv region, occupying key strongholds such as Izyum and Kupyansk.
September 11 Russian missiles hit Kharkivska CHPP-5, which completely cut off the power supply in Kharkiv and the Ukrainian-controlled part of Donetsk region, as well as partially in Zaporozhye, Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions.
11 September The last operating power unit was shut down at the Zaporozhye NPP.
On September 12, Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of “provocations” and launches an offensive on the border between the two countries, where there has been a conflict since the summer of 2021. Armenia failed to engage the CSTO and Russia’s influence in the Caucasus fell.
September 14 Clashes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan over a dispute over the border between the two countries. The Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan reported that 24 people were killed and 87 were injured. Russia’s influence in the region continues to decline.
15 September Chinese leader Xi Jinping meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other regional leaders at a summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The summit demonstrates the loss of support in the war for Putin’s Russia from India and China.
On September 15, the European Parliament declares that Hungary can no longer be considered a full democracy, stating that Viktor Orban’s government has become a “hybrid regime of electoral autocracy”.
September 15 After the withdrawal of Russian troops from Izyum, the Ukrainian authorities report the discovery of a mass grave of 450 killed near the city, as some of them bear signs of torture.
On September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization in Russia, stating that it was a necessary action to protect Russian sovereignty and that the use of nuclear weapons was not ruled out. Subsequently, Russian Defense Minister Shoigu announced the mobilization of 300,000 reserve citizens. This provoked demonstrations throughout the country.
September 22 As a result of the prisoner exchange, Ukraine received 215 soldiers, including Azovstal defense commanders; Russia received 55 soldiers and Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk.
On September 23, Russia holds mock referendums in the occupied Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine and in the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, in which some Ukrainian voters are forced to vote at gunpoint. Ukraine calls these bogus referendums and de jure they are criminalized by the Ukrainian government.
September 24 Over 750 people were detained in 32 cities during protests against mobilization in Russia.
On September 26, Edward Snowden, the former US intelligence contractor who exposed the NSA surveillance program, received Russian citizenship from Vladimir Putin.
September 26 Explosions occurred on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, resulting in large leaks in the pipelines. Probably Russian sabotage.
30 September In violation of international law, Vladimir Putin announces Russia’s illegal annexation of four Ukrainian regions: Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk, and Zaporozhye. Despite the fact that Russia occupies only a part of each region.
On October 1, the Lend-Lease Act for the Defense of Democracy in Ukraine of 2022 came into force in the United States.
October 1 Ukrainian forces enter the strategic city of Liman in the Donetsk region, defeating Russian forces and forcing them to retreat to Kremin, just a day after Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s illegal annexation of Donetsk.
On October 4, Ukraine officially abandoned negotiations with Russia.
On October 2, the Russian Constitutional Court declares that the annexation is constitutional, citing the need to correct “arbitrary decisions of the Soviet government” and prevent alleged mass repressions against Russians in Ukraine. Later it also became clear that the boundaries of the annexed entities should be the same as at the time of the annexation.
On October 3, North Korea fires a ballistic missile that flies over Japan, and the Japanese government calls on residents of Hokkaido and Aomori prefectures to immediately seek shelter. The missile later crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
October 4 The Federation Council of Russia unanimously approves the annexation of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
October 5 President of Russia Vladimir Putin signs the law formally joining the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, to the Russian Federation.
October 8 Several explosions occurred on the bridge across the Kerch Strait, which led to a fire and a partial collapse of a section of the road. Three people are killed. The organizers of the explosion are currently unknown. TASS claims that the immediate cause was the explosion of a fuel truck on the railway section of the bridge.
October 9 Russian President Vladimir Putin formally accuses Ukraine and specifically the Security Service of Ukraine of involvement in the explosion on the Crimean bridge, which killed three people and partially destroyed part of the bridge, saying that the explosion was a “terrorist act.”
October 10 Kyiv, Kharkiv, Khmelnytsky, Zhytomyr, Zaporozhye, Ivano-Frankivsk, Sumy, Dnipro, Lvov, Ternopil and Poltava are shelled indiscriminately by Russian troops. 19 people died, 105 were injured. Some critical infrastructure facilities were destroyed, houses, museums, roads were damaged.
11 October Thousands of Russian servicemen enter Belarus by “train”. The deployment of troops came a day after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko accused Ukraine of planning an attack on the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is warning the G7 countries that Russia plans to launch a new offensive against Kyiv with the direct participation of Belarus.
On October 12, the UN General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning Russia’s “attempted illegal annexation” of the territory of Ukraine. Only Belarus, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia and Syria voted against the resolution.
On October 13, Russia announces the evacuation of civilians from Kherson to “other regions of the country” after an appeal by the head of the Kherson military-civilian administration, Volodymyr Saldo.
October 15 Mass murder at a training ground in the Belgorod region: from 11 to 22 dead, according to various sources, more than 10 wounded. A Dagestani, an Azerbaijani and an Adyghe wanted to write a statement about non-participation in the war in Ukraine, denying that this war is sacred, since such in their religion is a war against infidels. Their commander declared that “Allah is then a coward.” This is where it all started.
On October 17, Russian forces attacked the Shevchenko district of Kyiv and an energy facility in the city of Sumy using HESA Shahed 136 suicide drones, killing eight people.
October 18 Three people are killed and critical infrastructure is destroyed by Russian missiles in Kyiv, causing fires, explosions and power outages. Several more cities in Ukraine suffered from targeted attacks on water supply and energy facilities.
18 October Iran agrees to provide Russia with medium-range missiles, surface-to-surface missiles and drones for the war in Ukraine.
October 19 Russian forces begin evacuating thousands of civilians from the occupied areas of the Kherson region, according to Russian-appointed governor Vladimir Saldo. Ukraine urges residents not to leave their cities and villages.
19 October Russian President Vladimir Putin declares martial law from midnight Thursday in the newly annexed territories of Ukraine. In addition, in the Crimea and the subjects of the federation bordering Ukraine, an “intermediate level of readiness” is being introduced.
On October 22, Russia launched 33 missile strikes on Ukraine, of which 18 missiles were intercepted by air defense, and 15 hit important energy facilities in the Kropyvnytsky and Golovanovsky districts of the Kirovohrad region, an energy facility in the Odessa region and the city of Rivne.
October 26 The US military successfully tests its long-range hypersonic weapons off the coast of Virginia ahead of an expected 2023 missile deployment.
27 October Russian forces strike Kyiv’s power grid and fire Smerch missiles at Zaporozhye as Ukraine repels attacks in the Donbas.
28 October Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announces the end of the mobilization campaign when 300,000 reservists are reached.
October 29 Russia accuses Ukraine of a drone attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea. The Russian-appointed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, says the Russian navy repelled what he calls the “biggest” attack since the invasion began. Then Russia tried but was unable to stop its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative due to global pressure.
October 29 Russia blames the British Royal Navy for the explosion of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea on September 26. The Russian Ministry of Defense says the British Navy is also behind recent attacks on Russian naval installations in Crimea. The British government denies both allegations.
On October 30, Russia imposes sanctions on eleven British overseas territories, accusing them of “unfriendly actions” against Moscow.
October 31 Russian troops again strike critical infrastructure in Kyiv, resulting in leaving part of the city without electricity and water. Other power facilities were damaged in Zaporozhye, Kherson and Cherkassy.
On November 2, North Korea launched 23 ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea, one of which crossed the Northern Limit Line (NLL), the de facto maritime border between North and South Korea, for the first time. Air raid sirens were activated on the South Korean island of Ulleungdo, and South Korean fighter jets fired three air-to-ground missiles at NLL in response to the missile launches.
November 2 US says North Korea is “secretly supplying” artillery shells to Russia for use in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
November 2 Russia rejoins the Black Sea Grain Initiative after Turkey’s mediation efforts.
On November 3, North Korea launched what is believed to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) towards Japan, triggering an evacuation warning for residents of Miyagi, Yamagata and Niigata prefectures. The rocket splashed down about 1100 km from the coast of Japan in the Pacific Ocean.
On November 7, Ukraine confirms that it has received the first batch of the NASAMS anti-aircraft missile system, which will “significantly strengthen” its armed forces.
November 9 Russian troops announce a retreat from the city of Kherson, from the western bank of the Dnieper in the Nikolaev region and the western part of the Kherson region.
November 11 Ukrainian troops enter the city of Kherson, the only regional center of Ukraine captured by Russia during an invasion, ending an eight-month occupation of the city by Russian troops. Russian troops destroyed the road bridge across the Antonovka, retreating from the west of the Dnieper.
November 15 Russian missiles hit several cities in Ukraine, including Kyiv, causing “critical” damage to energy facilities.
November 15 A rocket attack in the village of Przewodow in eastern Poland killed two people. The Polish Foreign Ministry says that it was a “Russian-made missile” and summoned the Russian ambassador to give an explanation.
17 November Russia launches another wave of cruise missile strikes against Ukraine, with airstrikes reported in Dnipro, Odessa, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia, where two people were confirmed to have died overnight as a result of a missile hit. Critical infrastructure facilities are also targeted in Dnipro and Odessa.
On November 17, a court in the Netherlands sentenced two Russians Igor Strelkov-Girkin and Sergey Dubinsky and Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist Leonid Kharchenko to life imprisonment for downing Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over the Donetsk region of Ukraine in 2014.
On November 18, North Korea launched what is believed to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that landed 200 kilometers off the coast of Japan and in its exclusive economic zone.
November 23 Russia carries out an air attack on Ukraine. Throughout Ukraine and Moldova there is no electricity, in many cities of Ukraine there is also no water.
23 November The European Parliament defines Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, referring to Russian military strikes on civilian targets in Ukraine.
On December 1, the Spanish Ministry of the Interior reports that several letters with bombs have been sent to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, the Ministry of Defense and the Torrejon Air Base. A bomb containing the sixth letter is intercepted at the US Embassy in Madrid.
2 December Australia, the European Union and the G7 countries decide to set a price ceiling for Russian offshore oil at $60 per barrel.
2 December President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signs a decree banning religious organizations with ties to Russia and imposing personal sanctions against their representatives. Zelenskiy also announces that the Ukrainian government will draft a law to ban churches associated with Russia, which he says is necessary to counter the Russian government’s attempts to “weaken Ukraine from within.”
5 December Russian forces launch another wave of cruise missile strikes into Ukraine, destroying homes and killing two people in the Zaporozhye region, and causing power outages in many other areas after damaging critical infrastructure.
On December 5, Russia reports that a long-range drone attack on its Dyagilevo air base and Engels-2 air base has left three servicemen dead, four injured and two strategic aircraft damaged.
December 7 Belarusian legislators approved a bill providing for the death penalty for high treason among officials and military personnel. The bill also provides for prosecution for “dissemination of deliberately false information discrediting the Armed Forces of Belarus.”
On December 9, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of “destroying” the frontline town of Bakhmut after weeks of relentless shelling by Russian forces.
December 10 More than 1.5 million people were left without electricity in the Odessa region as a result of attacks by Russian pilots for two power facilities.
On December 16, Russia launched 76 missiles at energy infrastructure facilities and civilian facilities in the Kyiv, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine. Metro in Kyiv and Kharkov suspended their work and were used as bomb shelters. This led to problems with electricity, water and heat supply. In Kupyansk, the blow fell on the central city hospital and the pharmacy building. In Krivoy Rog, a Russian rocket hit a residential building. There are dead and wounded. Ukraine accuses Russia of “weapons” of winter.
December 21 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky visits Washington, D.C., meets with US President Joe Biden and addresses Congress. The US Senate votes for $45 billion in aid to Ukraine and US allies, the US Congress supported the confiscation of Russian assets in favor of Ukraine. The new US military aid package includes Patriot air defenses.
On December 24, Russian troops shelled the city of Kherson, killing at least 10 civilians and injuring 58.
December 26 Attack of Ukrainian drones on the air base in Engels in the Saratov region (Russia), preempting a Russian strike with missiles on the cities of Ukraine. According to unverified reports, five Tu-95 aircraft were damaged. In addition, 17 Russians were killed, 26 wounded, three of them “heavy”. The control tower was also destroyed. After that, Russia relocated part of the aircraft to other airfields.
On December 29, Russia launched a series of drone and cruise missile strikes on Ukraine, with attacks reported on Kyiv, Kharkov, Odessa, Lvov and Zhytomyr, injuring at least five people.
December 31 In the afternoon and on New Year’s Eve, Russia launched a massive strike with missiles and drones on Ukraine.
September 11, October 10-19, October 22, October 31, November 15, November 23, December 5, December 16, December 29, December 31 – mass rocket attacks by Russia on Ukrainian cities. Ukraine is fighting for the resumption of infrastructure services.
Russia lost the war against Ukraine. We are talking about the cost of losing and the post-war configuration of Russia and Ukraine. However, Ukraine is also not ready to win the war: corruption during the war, a mediocre economic policy based on Western aid that kills its own economy and its own business, as well as a complete unwillingness to change the model of political, economic and socio-cultural life in the country.
Decline in the global coronavirus infodemic.
Or, to put it another way, the Russian-Ukrainian war killed the virus in the West. In addition, the epidemic has largely shifted to China, which has been trying to avoid the epidemic for two years through a “zero covid” policy.
January 2 Coronavirus infodemic continues. Israel becomes one of the first countries to offer a fourth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine amid a surge in Omicron.
On Jan. 10, the US reports 1.34 million new COVID-19 infections, a world record, with the Omicron variant accounting for approximately 95% of cases.
12 January British Prime Minister Boris Johnson admits that in May 2020, during the country’s first lockdown, he attended a “Bring Your Own Drink” staff party.
On January 26, Spotify removes Neil Young’s music from its streaming platform following the singer-songwriter’s ultimatum to object to COVID-19 misinformation on Joe Rogan’s podcasts.
31 January British government report amid police investigation says ‘failure of leadership’ led to parties on Downing Street when the UK was under strict lockdown.
On February 3, Austria launches its vaccination mandate for all. It is the first country in Europe to do so.
February 18 A scientific study shows that a sudden drop in emissions due to COVID-19 shutdowns caused record rainfall in eastern China in 2020.
February 20 Queen Elizabeth II, 95, tests positive for COVID-19.
February 24 is the Day of Ukraine’s victory over the coronavirus infodemic. Interestingly, after the start of the war, the wearing of masks in Ukraine in public places quietly ceased without statements from the authorities and public protests on this matter.
From this day on, the Information Space of Ukraine during the war is a Unified Information Marathon, which replaces the coronavirus infodemic with three identical functions: propaganda, teardropping and intimidation. And since the epidemic is on the decline, there is, as it were, a change in the global infodemic.
March 10 The true global death toll from COVID-19 is estimated at 18.2 million in a new University of Washington study, contradicting the May 5 WHO study.
On March 14, Omicron causes the largest outbreak of COVID-19 in China since Wuhan in 2020, with 26 million people in lockdown in Changchun and Shenzhen.
On March 15, Hong Kong, at the height of its worst COVID-19 outbreak, recorded more than 4,000 deaths in a few months mainly due to low vaccination rates when Omicron strikes out forcing a zero covid policy to be abandoned.
March 27, China announces that Shanghai will be locked down in two phases for nine days, affecting 25 million people for COVID-19 testing.
On March 29, the US FDA authorizes Pfizer or Moderna booster boosters for people over 50 or who are immunocompromised.
On April 5, the quarantine in Shanghai extended to the entire city as the number of cases of COVID-19 rises, as China remains one of the latest to apply the “zero-Covid” system, that is, zero tolerance for covid.
April 12 The number of known cases of COVID-19 in the world exceeds 500 million, of which 5.1 billion (66%) received at least one vaccine shot.
April 12 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologizes and fined for attending parties during COVID-19 lockdown – the first prime minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law.
On April 18, a U.S. federal judge ruled “illegal” the Biden administration’s order to wear masks on public transportation.
April 20 Online streaming service Netflix lost subscribers for the first time in a decade – 200,000 customers from January to March. There was nothing to see, and what is there is not interesting. The degradation of plots and the destruction of creativity – these are the consequences of the global coronavirus infodemic, and not the epidemic itself.
April 27 A US CDC report says that by February 2022, more than half of people (57.7%) had antibodies to COVID-19, with 75.2% of children and adolescents.
On May 2, New Zealand reopens its borders to international visitors from over 60 countries after they were closed for two years during the pandemic.
May 5 A published study by the WHO on excess deaths worldwide found that 15 million more people than usual have died, far exceeding the official COVID-19 death toll of 6 million. When asked why these people died, there is no answer. The answer – because of the fear driven by the infodemic – is not publicly considered.
On May 12, North Korea issues a nationwide lockdown order after confirming the first cases of COVID-19 Omicron. International experts express concern about the unvaccinated population of 25 million.
On May 25, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was re-elected Director-General of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Inadequate WHO policy in the UN is not recognized and is not comprehended.
On June 4, the WHO reported that monkeypox has now been found in 27 countries where it is not yet endemic – 780 in the past three weeks. The global risk is assessed as moderate, that is, the inability to start a new epidemic infodemic is recorded.
June 15 The Black Death, a 14th-century plague, originated in Kyrgyzstan, according to a new DNA study taken from burials at Lake Issyk-Kul.
23 July WHO declares monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern, with 16,000 cases reported in 75 countries.
1 September China locks down the economically important city of Chengdu, with a population of 21 million, after 700 cases of COVID-19 were detected in the past few days.
September 18 US President Joe Biden says in a CBS television interview that “we still have a problem with Covid” and “we are still working hard on it. But the pandemic is over.”
November 21 China reports new outbreaks of COVID-19: 28,127 new cases, half of which are in Guangzhou and Chongqing municipality, and public places closed in Beijing and Shanghai.
Nov. 26 Rare public protests against the government’s restrictive COVID-19 policies took place in various Chinese cities. Hundreds of demonstrators clash with police in Shanghai as security forces attempt to disperse crowds while lighting candles to commemorate the victims of the Nov. 24 fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang.
On December 7, China announces a major lifting of restrictions due to COVID-9 for the entire country, allowing home quarantine and phasing out QR codes.
On December 25, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) stopped publishing data on new infections and deaths from COVID-19. Instead, data on the coronavirus situation will now be reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for reference and research purposes. The NHC did not explain the reasons for this decision, nor the frequency and content of CDC publications. Most likely, in order not to embarrass the governments of other countries, China did not say that the reason is that the infodemic of death threats is idiocy during an epidemic. In the same way, China was afraid to admit that its “zero-covid” policy is a mistake.
On Dec. 28, Italy and the United States required travelers from China to provide a negative COVID-19 antigen rapid test before entering the country.
“The war killed the virus” – so spoke in the early days of Russia’s war against Ukraine. However, the truth is that the infodemic of war has supplanted the coronavirus infodemic.
It is incorrect to compare the mortality rate from influenza, to which humanity has herd immunity to most strains, with the mortality from coronavirus in 2019-2021, while humanity did not have herd immunity. In 2022, when humanity gained collective immunity to the coronavirus, it turned out that the total mortality for 2019-2022 from coronavirus is approaching and will continue to approach the mortality rate from influenza more and more.
Only the previous analytical assessment can be confirmed – the coronavirus infodemic was a deliberate anti-human global campaign of mass intimidation in the interests of the national governments of most countries and businessmen who benefit from the infodemic (not to be confused with the epidemic, which really was).
The environmental and climate crisis is becoming the background conditions for the life of mankind.
January 13 Australia’s hottest temperature ever recorded is 50.7C (123.26F) in Onslow, Western Australia.
January 15 The Hunga-Tonga submarine volcano Hunga-Ha’apai erupts violently with a 20 km ash plume, causing a tsunami over nearby Tonga, shockwaves are heard in New Zealand.
January 15 An oil spill at the La Pampilla refinery off the coast of Peru due to a wave from an eruption in Tonga.
January 24 At least 34 people were killed and 65,000 were left homeless after two different tropical storms hit Madagascar and Mozambique, Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, was particularly hard hit.
February 4 Cyclone Batsiray hits Madagascar less than a month after Cyclone Ana, causing extensive damage, killing at least 92 people and displacing 91,000 people.
8 February The Horn of Africa (Somalia), home to 13 million people, is currently facing a humanitarian crisis due to drought, where the rainy season has been absent for three consecutive years.
On February 11, Australia lists the koala as endangered for the first time in Queensland, New South Wales and the ACT after a sharp decline in numbers.
On February 14, the mega-drought that hit the American Southwest is now considered the worst in 1,200 years, according to scientists.
February 15 Floods and landslides after the heaviest rain in a century in Petropolis, Brazil, kill 146 people and leave 191 missing.
February 18 Storm Eunice [Zeynep/Nora] moves across Europe and the UK with wind gusts of 193 km/h, killing at least 17 people, cutting off power to millions.
February 26 A “rainbomb” from a slow moving low pressure trough causes severe flooding in southeast Queensland, Australia, killing at least seven people.
28 February UN Critical Climate Change report warns that climate change is outpacing human efforts to adapt, with a 1.5 degree Celsius rise in best-case scenario, 14% of species face ‘very high risk of extinction’.
2 March UN states agree to create a legally binding treaty on plastic pollution (tbd 2024) following negotiations in Nairobi, Kenya. This is the most important environmental agreement since 2015.
March 22 Microplastics are detected in human blood for the first time, thanks to a new study conducted at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
April 19 The Biden Administration reinstates the National Environmental Policy Act, which was previously repealed by Donald Trump.
May 3 A heatwave continues in North and Central India, disproportionately affecting the poor, with temperatures in March and April the hottest on record in 122 years.
May 29 At least 79 people have died as a result of heavy rains and landslides in the Brazilian northeastern province of Pernambuco, another 56 are missing.
June 18 Flooding in Bangladesh and nearby Indian states has left four million people without power and at least 41 dead as monsoon floods become more frequent and extreme.
June 21 Severe flooding has affected southern China, including the provinces of Guangdong and Jiangxi, which received the most rainfall since 1961, forcing authorities to evacuate tens of thousands of people.
22 June A 6.1 magnitude earthquake, the deadliest to strike Afghanistan in twenty years, struck near Khost in the southeast, killing at least 1,000 people and injuring 1,500.
20 July Severe heat wave across Europe kills over 1,000 in Portugal and 500 in Spain; during forest fires in Spain, France, Italy and Greece.
July 21 The UK records temperatures above 40°C (104°F) for the first time (record 40.3°C in Coningsby) amid extreme heat across much of Europe.
July 24 Heat wave in the American Northeast, in many cities, including Boston, , St. Louis and Philadelphia declared a heat emergency.
August 8 Record-breaking downpours in Seoul, South Korea, where some areas received the most rainfall in 80 years (141.5 mm per hour), at least eight people died.
On August 11, a “monstrous” forest fire southeast of Bordeaux, involving 1,000 firefighters, burned 7,400 hectares during France’s driest summer since 1961.
August 12 A drought is officially declared across eight regions of the UK amid the country’s driest period since 1976.
August 16 Severe drought weather modification programs are launched along stretches of the Yangtze River in China, including seeding clouds with silver iodide rods to stimulate rain.
On August 17, China issues a high temperature warning for at least 138 cities and counties, amid the country’s longest heat wave since records began (64 days).
August 19 A drought in Europe exposes river “hunger stones” that once warned of famine, including the Decin Stone (earliest inscription from 1417) on the Elbe River with the inscription “if you see me, then cry” carved into it.
On August 20, 22 million people in the Horn of Africa are now at risk of starvation, up 9 million more than in January, according to the UN, following the worst drought in 40 years.
August 26 The area of forest fires in Russia increased by more than 12 thousand hectares and amounted to 122.5 thousand hectares. The largest fires are in Yakutia, where 74,667 hectares have been covered by fire.
28 August Pakistan calls for international help as the death toll from monsoon rains and floods exceeds 1,000.
September 8 Europe had the warmest summer ever recorded, with 0.4 warmer and August 0.8 warmer, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
10 September UN Secretary-General António Guterres visits and calls for global support in flood-stricken Pakistan, where 33 million people have been displaced and damage is estimated at $30 billion.
September 27 Hurricane Yan crosses western Cuba as a Category 3 storm, leaving the country without power, killing three people.
September 28 Hurricane Yan makes landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Cayo Costa, Florida with winds of 241 km/h (Hurricane Kanter National).
December 14 HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, says it will stop funding new oil and gas fields in an attempt to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Ecological and climatic crisis of Mankind is an inevitable trend of its further existence on planet Earth. This crisis goes beyond the limits of national-state capabilities – this is the first planetary universal crisis as a challenge, the answer to which can become the beginning of the awareness of All-Humanity as Humanity.]
[The politics of countries enters a crisis against the backdrop of the Russian-Ukrainian war as a confrontation between the West (+Ukraine) and the East (Russia-China-India). In the confrontation between Russia and the West, China is more likely on the side of Russia, while India is trying to take a neutral and aloof position.
5 January A state of emergency is declared in Kazakhstan amid riots and protests against rising fuel prices, killing 164 people in three days.
Britain’s Prince Andrew is stripped of his military ranks and royal patronage by Buckingham Palace on January 13 amid continued allegations of sexual harassment.
January 18 The Indonesian Parliament approves a bill to move the capital to Borneo and announces that the new city will be called Nusantara (meaning archipelago).
On February 6, Queen Elizabeth II, celebrating seventy years on the throne, becomes the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee.
On February 7, French President Emmanuel Macron met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow amid the concentration of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine. Macron begins a series of meetings and telephone conversations to save “Putin’s face”, which will end in nothing and seriously undermine the image of the French president. The position of Putinfersteer Macron against the backdrop of the Russian-Ukrainian war seriously spoiled the world reputation of the French elite.
12 February The French military says they have destroyed 40 fighter jets in air attacks in Burkina Faso on the border with Benin.
On February 17, 28,000 women applied for 30 train driver jobs after they were first advertised for women in Saudi Arabia.
On March 8, the Florida Senate passes the controversial “Parental Rights in Education Act,” known as the “Don’t Say Gay Act,” to ban teachers from discussing gender identity.
March 8 Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon formally apologizes to the 4,000 Scots, mostly women, accused of witchcraft between 1563 and 1736.
17 March Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari apologizes for recent fuel shortages and power outages, including the withdrawal from the national electricity grid and an increase in the amount of falsified fuel.
On March 22, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party reaches an agreement with the opposition New Democratic Party to remain in power until 2025.
April 3 Pakistan plunges into a constitutional crisis after Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved parliament and called for new elections, avoiding a vote of no confidence.
April 3 The Taliban government bans the cultivation of opium in Afghanistan, with implications for the world’s supply since it produces 80%.
On April 7, Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first black woman to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate in the Supreme Court by a vote of 53 to 47.
10 April Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is ousted from power after losing a vote of no confidence in parliament.
April 24 French President Emmanuel Macron wins the re-election of Marine Le Pen from the National Rally. This is the first sitting French president to be re-elected in 20 years.
On May 5, Karine Jean-Pierre is named White House Press Secretary to President Joe Biden, the first black and non-LGBTQ person in this role.
On May 7, the Ministry of Propagating Virtue and Preventing Vice of Afghanistan issued a decree requiring Afghan women to cover their faces in public (head-to-toe hijab) or face criminal penalties for their guardian.
8 May The Thai government announces it will distribute one million cannabis plants to households to mark a new rule allowing people to grow it at home.
On May 10, the US reports its highest gun death rate in 2020, according to the CDC, with gun homicides up 35% to 6.1 deaths per 100,000 nationwide.
May 11 First US government report on deaths in Indian boarding schools (incomplete) released, documenting over 500 deaths in 400 schools and 50 graves in 150 years.
16 May US President Joe Biden approves the redeployment of several hundred US ground troops in Somalia, overturning President Donald Trump’s decision.
May 19 Oklahoma passes a law banning almost all abortions, the most restrictive in the country.
21 May Australian General Election: Scott Morrison’s coalition government is defeated after nine years in office, Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party wins the most seats.
May 23, New York is removing its last payphones in midtown Manhattan, they will become part of the museum exhibition.
On June 1, Turkey officially changes its name to Turkiye at the United Nations and internationally.
On June 2, Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her platinum jubilee with four days of celebrations, starting with a military parade at Buckingham Palace.
On June 14, Denmark and Canada agree to share the Arctic island of Hans, ending their 50-year “Whiskey War” in which each country has made claims by buying whiskey on the island.
19 June French President Emmanuel Macron’s centralist coalition loses its ruling majority in the National Assembly after right and left win legislative elections.
June 29 The latest homicide resolution rates in the US show that half of all homicides remain unsolved, and if the victim is black or Hispanic, the likelihood of solving is even less.
On July 1, Germany and Nigeria signed an agreement to return ownership of more than 1,000 Beninese bronzes looted during colonial times to Nigeria.
July 5 Possibly China’s biggest security breach: A hacker offers Shanghai police to sell a database containing information on one billion Chinese.
6 July First joint speech by MI5 Chief Ken McCallum and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray warning that China is “the biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security.”
6 July A dramatic day in British politics as more than 40 government ministers and aides withdraw their support for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and resign in a record 24 hours.
7 July British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces his resignation in Downing Street after pressure and mass resignations of his ministers.
9 July Thousands of protesters from Sri Lanka storm the Presidential Palace and set fire to the prime minister’s house in Colombo, leading to pledges by both to step down amid continued economic turmoil.
20 July Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s Italian government resigns after a vote of no confidence by his coalition partners.
July 31 Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who helped plan the 9/11 attacks, is killed in a CIA drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan. US President Joe Biden calls this the biggest blow to Osama bin Laden’s group.
August 7 The U.S. Senate passes the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act, Save package designed to combat climate change, reduce health care costs and tax large corporations.
On August 8, the FBI raids the home of former US President Donald Trump in Florida, Mar-a-Largo, in connection with his handling of classified government documents.
Aug. 14 An FBI leak about a search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence reveals that 11 sets of classified documents were unearthed, some marked top secret.
On August 15, Scotland becomes the first country in the world to make period products free for everyone.
16 August Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reveals that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has secretly appointed himself to five ministerial portfolios between March 2020 and May 2021.
August 24 South Korea again recorded the lowest birth rate in the world – 0.81 (average for the developed economy 1.6, the need for population replacement 2.1).
August 29 The most massive violence in the Iraqi capital Baghdad in recent years: 30 killed and 700 wounded after the Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr announced his retirement from politics.
On August 31, the UN releases a report accusing China of serious human rights violations against Uyghurs in its western Xinjiang, which “may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.”
September 2 After 13 years of construction, India’s first independently designed, developed and built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant was officially commissioned.
September 4 In the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, a large stabbing took place in the territory of the indigenous community, as a result of which 12 people were killed and 18 were injured. This is one of the deadliest murders in Canadian history.
On September 5, the ruling Conservative Party of Great Britain appoints Liz Truss as its next leader and prime minister, replacing the scandal-ridden Boris Johnson.
September 7 New British Prime Minister Liz Truss appoints his cabinet, and for the first time in British politics, none of the “high government posts” is held by white men.
8 September The Australian Government passes its first climate change bill in a decade, including cutting emissions by at least 43% by 2030.
On September 8, Queen Elizabeth II dies at Balmoral Castle after 70 years as Britain’s longest-reigning monarch. Her eldest son succeeds to the throne as King Charles III (or Charles III – a discussion about the transcription of the king’s name in the English or German tradition).
September 12 According to the UN International Labor Organization, modern slavery (forced labor and forced marriage) has increased by 10-50 million people over the past five years. Voluntary choice of slavery in exchange for welfare.
17 September Protests erupt in Iran and continue for the next few days over the treatment of women following the funeral of Mahsa Amini, who died in the custody of the vice police.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is buried at Windsor Castle on September 19 following a state funeral at Westminster Abbey in London attended by an unprecedented 500 world leaders.
On September 25, Cuba legalizes same-sex marriage under a new family code in a national referendum.
On October 3, Elon Musk proposed a scandalous scenario for ending the war between Russia and Ukraine through Ukrainian territorial concessions to Russia. This is a manifestation of nuclear psychosis due to the global military infodemic among the representatives of the world elite.
20 October Prime Minister Liz Truss announces his resignation.
October 22 Closing of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party in Beijing, which can be described as the achievement of the almost unlimited power of Xi Jinping.
October 23, Xi Jinping is elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of China by the Central Committee for a third term as China’s supreme leader.
October 25 Rishi Sunak is the new British Prime Minister.
November 1 In a report by The Intercept, leaked documents show that the US Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have made extensive efforts to influence major technology platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Microsoft and Wikipedia to censor online information. or messages that the US government considers disinformation.
10 November The Taliban ruling Afghanistan bans women from public parks and attractions.
November 12 US midterm elections: Democrats retain control of the Senate.
13 November An improvised explosive device detonated on Istiklal Avenue in Beyoglu, Istanbul, killing eight people and injuring 81 others. Minister of the Interior Suleyman Soylu reports that the suspected woman has been arrested.
November 15 World population reaches 8 billion, just 11 years after it surpassed 7 billion, although it is now slowing down (expected 9 billion around 2037), according to the UN.
On November 20, 69-year-old Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who has led Kazakhstan since 2019, won an early presidential election with more than 81% of the vote.
November 20 UN COP27 Summit agrees to establish a fund to help poor and vulnerable countries fight climate change, with a committee of 24 countries.
On November 24, the UN Human Rights Council approved the establishment of a mission to investigate allegations of human rights violations committed by the Iranian government in response to the protests.
November 28 The cocaine “super cartel”, which controlled a third of European trade, was defeated by Europol during Operation Desert Light, 30 tons of the drug were seized and 49 people were arrested.
3 December The Iranian government releases its first official death toll in the protests that followed the death of Mahsa Amini in September. The report said more than 200 people died in what the government called “riots.”
December 3 Former US President Donald Trump, in a post on his Truth Social, calls for the “repeal” of all rules, including the US Constitution, in order to cancel the 2020 election, which he once again falsely claims to have won.
On December 8, the U.S. House of Representatives passes the Respect for Marriage Act, which makes same-sex and interracial marriages a federal law, by a vote of 258–169–1.
December 13 US President Joe Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act, mandating federal recognition of same-sex marriage, at a ceremony at the White House.
19 December Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte formally apologizes for the slave trade on behalf of the Dutch state in a speech at the National Archives in The Hague.
The crisis of national-state politics and the bankruptcy of national politicians are becoming more and more obvious. Supranational structures – the UN, NATO, the WTO and the OSCE – are completely incapable of creating a universal policy.
The economies of states and corporations are entering a crisis against the backdrop of the Russian-Ukrainian war and sanctions against Russia.
On January 3rd, Apple becomes the first US company to be valued at $3 trillion after tripling its price in less than four years.
On January 18, Microsoft says it is buying Activision Blizzard, the publisher of online games Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush, for $70 billion, the largest acquisition of games and technology in history.
March 31 The US announces it will release 1 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for six months to bring prices down.
On April 4, Elon Musk buys a 9.2% stake in Twitter, making him the company’s largest shareholder.
April 19 US inflation reaches 8.5%, the highest level since 1981, driven by rising gas, rent and food prices.
On April 25, Twitter announces a deal to sell itself to Elon Musk for $44 billion.
May 4 The US Federal Reserve makes the biggest interest rate hike since 2000 (+0.5%) in an attempt to fight the fastest rate of inflation in four decades.
June 7 “It will be difficult for many countries to avoid a recession.” says World Bank President David Malpass, predicting that global growth will slow to 2.9% in 2022 (down from 5.7%).
On June 22, the UK reports the highest inflation rate in the G7 at 9.1%, a 40-year high, driven by rising food and fuel prices.
On June 30, New York is named the richest city in the world with 345,600 millionaires and 59 billionaires, with Tokyo and San Francisco in the top three.
On July 12, Twitter is suing Elon Musk after he backed out of a deal to buy the social networking site, accusing him of “bad faith.”
On July 28, Saudi Arabia unveiled plans to build a futuristic 106-mile city with one Line building to house 9 million people powered by renewable energy without roads.
August 23 The exchange rate between the euro and the US dollar falls to 0.9928, the lowest level since the introduction of the single European currency.
September 19 Banks in Lebanon close for three days after a series of robberies committed by people trying to get their own money frozen amid the economic crisis in the country.
On October 27, Elon Musk takes over Twitter and immediately fires 4 executives.
On November 22, the UK faced a bigger blow to its economy from the global energy crisis than any other advanced economy, according to the OECD, which is forecast to contract by 0.4%.
On December 6, the 1574th and final Boeing 747, an Atlas Air 747-8 Freighter, rolls out of the Boeing Everett factory.
December 20 An explosion on the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod export gas pipeline during maintenance work in Chuvashia, Russia, kills three workers and cuts off gas supply through the pipeline. This is not in the expert reports, but the world economy seems to be being transferred to a military footing in order to help Ukraine and in the face of the Sino-Russian threat. The non-military corporate economy is starting to seriously stagnate.]
[Science and technology shows a decline in activity, and at the same time very rare and important achievements. However, “space” this year is not so rich in achievements to single it out in a separate section.
Jan 7 First successful human porcine heart transplant when a genetically engineered porcine heart was implanted into a 53-year-old man in Baltimore, Maryland.
January 19 5G mobile service launches in the US, airlines claim it could interfere with aviation technology.
On January 20, 19-year-old pilot Zara Rutherford became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world, landing at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport, Belgium.
February 1 Queen Elizabeth Prize in Engineering, “Nobel Prize in Engineering” awarded to Masato Sagawa for the invention of neodymium-iron-boron (Nd-Fe-B) magnet.
February 26 Scientists publish data on the “lost” continent of Balkanatolia, which linked southern Europe with Asia, providing a passage for animal migrations 35-38 million years ago.
March 4 Four-ton rocket debris crashes into the far side of the Moon, the unconfirmed launch vehicle of China’s Chang’e 5-T1 mission in the first unintentional impact with the Moon.
March 23 The Abel Prize, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in mathematics, is awarded to the American Dennis Sullivan for his work on topography.
March 29 New Pluto exploration finds evidence of cryovolcanoes and icy lava from NASA New Horizons 2015 footage.
On March 30, the Turing Computer Prize was awarded to American programmer Jack Dongarra, whose work paved the way for supercomputing.
March 31 First truly complete human genome sequence published by the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium after a breakthrough in new technologies (previously just over 90% encoded).
April 6 Scientists claim to have found the remains of dinosaurs that died on the very day a giant asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago, starting their extinction, at the Tanis fossil site, North Dakota.
April 8 The first completely private space flight “Axiom-1” starts to the International Space Station.
25 April The first airport for electric flying cars and large drones built by Urban-Air Port goes into operation in Coventry, England.
On April 27, SpaceX launches its Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts, including Jessica Watkins, who becomes the first black woman to fly an extended mission to the International Space Station.
May 4 A first-of-its-kind study of transgender children conducted by Princeton University between the ages of 3 and 12 found that the vast majority of them continue to identify with their new gender five years later.
May 12 The first images of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way are published by the Event Horizon telescope.
May 31 Lost to drought, a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age city discovered on the Tigris River, Iraq, probably part of the Mittani empire, contains 100 cuneiform tablets.
June 7 A new study shows that the Shark Bay seagrass, off the coast of Western Australia, may be the largest plant in the world, covering 77 square miles of seafloor, that has been cloning itself over the course of 4,500 years.
On June 9, NASA announces that it will begin research on UFOs, focusing on Unidentified Air Phenomena (UAEs).
June 13 A Google engineer claims that one of his AI systems, Lamda, may be sentient, causing the company to put him on vacation.
June 13 MIT researchers propose creating a raft of “space bubbles” that float above the earth to reflect the sun’s rays and help fight climate change.
On June 21, South Korea successfully launches its first satellites into orbit using its own Nuri rocket from the Naro Space Center.
On June 25, the 30,000-year-old intact remains of a baby woolly mammoth are found frozen in permafrost in the Klondike gold mines in Yukon, Canada.
27 June Australia’s first rocket launch in 25 years and NASA’s first commercial spaceport outside the US for a sub-orbital rocket from Arnhem Space Center, Northern Territory.
On June 28, Rocket Lab launches NASA’s CAPSTONE, a microwave-oven-sized CubeSat spacecraft from the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, into lunar orbit to provide research for future Gateway and Artemis missions.
July 7 US scientists begin searching for dark matter using a device at a former gold mine in Leeds, South Dakota.
On July 11, NASA and US President Joe Biden released the first image from the Je Space Telescope. James Webb, a cluster of galaxies called SMACS 0723, four billion light-years distant from us, as they appeared 13 billion years ago.
July 11 A new study suggests that dogs can “see” with their nose – “the first documented direct link between the olfactory bulb and the occipital lobe in any species.”
On July 15, the American company SpaceX carried out the launch of the Cargo Dragon 2 cargo spacecraft.
On July 17, SpaceX launched 53 more mini-satellites for the Starlink network using a Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
On August 5, Volkswagen launches a prototype of its first flying car, an automated electric passenger vehicle nicknamed the “Flying Tiger”.
August 18 An enormous megalithic complex of over 500 standing stones is announced at La Torre La Janera, Huelva, southern Spain.
August 18 Scientists in the journal Science published a new way to break down the “timeless chemicals” of PFAS compounds responsible for cancer, low birth weight and reduced immunity.
August 22 The world’s first commercial electric aircraft began to be used for scheduled flights by Harbor Air.
24 August German and French rail vehicle manufacturer Alstom commission the world’s first fleet of hydrogen-powered trains in Lower Saxony. 14 hydrogen trains will replace a 100 km diesel locomotive fleet in Germany.
7 September Discovery of the earliest evidence of surgery on a 31,000-year-old skeleton with an amputated lower leg in a cave in East Kalimantan, Borneo, published in Nature.
September 19 China successfully clones an Arctic wolf for the first time in the world; the puppies were already 100 days old, in connection with which a press conference was organized, during which they talked about this experiment.
On September 26, a NASA probe on a double asteroid re-routing test mission successfully crashed into the moon of the binary asteroid Double Moon, marking the world’s first demonstration of planetary defense technology.
On October 2, Elon Musk introduced the humanoid robot Optimus.
On October 3, Swedish biologist Svante Pabo received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contribution to the DNA sequencing of extinct humans.
On October 4, Alan Aspe, John Krause, and Anton Zeilinger received the Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments on photon entanglement, establishing violations of Bell’s inequality, and developing quantum informatics.
October 5 Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Carl Barry Sharpless and Dane Morten P. Meldal are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
October 6 French writer Annie Ernault is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for “the courage and clinical poignancy with which she exposes the roots, alienation and collective limitations of personal memory.”
On October 7 Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights society Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Questionable action by the Nobel Committee. The aggressor countries and the victim country are equalized.
October 10 Americans Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip H. Dibwig are awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics “for their research on banks and financial crises.”
On Oct. 11, NASA reports that its DART spacecraft has successfully re-orbited the 520-foot (160 m) asteroid Dimorphos for about 32 minutes, demonstrating the asteroid’s impact avoidance capability.
On October 31, the Mengtian Experimental Module of the Chinese space station was launched from the Wenchang Cosmodrome in Hainan and successfully entered its assigned orbit.
November 4 Astronomers announce the discovery of the closest known black hole to Earth, just 1,600 light-years away, 10 times as massive as our Sun.
November 9 Archaeologists announce the discovery of the oldest decipherable saying on an ivory comb: “Let this tusk rip the lice out of your hair and beard.” 1700 BC Canaanite script from Tel Lachish, Israel.
On November 16, NASA launches the Artemis 1 (Artemis-1) mission after several months of delays. This is the first flight of the space launch system.
November 29 Canadian scientists announce the discovery of two new minerals, elaliite and elkinstantonite, never before found on Earth, from the Nightfall meteorite found in Somalia.
On Dec. 9, China launched a four-stage solid rocket from an offshore platform in the Yellow Sea. The Tselong-3 rocket can carry more than 20 satellites in one mission, and the cost does not exceed $10,000 per kilogram.
Dec. 11 NASA’s Orion spacecraft returns to Earth after completing the Artemis I test flight around the moon in 25.5 days, a record distance traveled by a human-carrying spacecraft.
On December 13, the US Department of Energy officially confirmed that For the first time in history, scientists at the Livermore National Laboratory in California have carried out a controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction with a positive energy yield. This is the first successful nuclear fusion reaction in the laboratory, reproducing the same energy that powers the sun.
On December 15, the James Webb Telescope was named Science Breakthrough of the Year.
The three most important scientific and technological achievements: the complete sequencing of the human genome on March 31, the first images of a supermassive black hole on May 12, and the controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction on December 13 – genetics, space, thermonuclear. Separately, there is the development of the ongoing space expansion of the United States and China, with a significant lag in Europe and other countries.
Cultural events become purely formal and rather go to the global level of interaction between cultures, rather than remain internal achievements of a particular culture.
10 January 79th Golden Globes: Best Picture, Reign of the Dog (Drama), West Side Story (Comedy/Musical), Best TV Series, Legacies, Best Director, Jane Campion (Motion Picture). The title of best actor in the nomination “Drama” was won by Will Smith, who played the title role in the film “King Richard”.
January 30 Australian Open men’s tennis: Rafael Nadal wins a record 21st Grand Slam singles title with an epic 2-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 7-5 win over Daniil Medvedev from Russia.
4 February The XXIV Winter Olympic Games opened in Beijing.
February 20 Closing of the XXIV Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, China; Norway finishes with a record 16 gold medals. For Ukraine, this event made it possible to delay the start of the war, since there are suspicions about an agreement between Putin and Xi Jinping not to start a war until the end of the Olympic Games in China.
March 26 British rock band Genesis performs the final show of their farewell tour at the O2 Arena in London, England.
27 March 94th Academy Awards: Coda wins Best Picture, Best Director Jane Campion, Best Actress Jessica Chastain, Best Actor Will Smith, who also scored a slap host Chris Rock live on stage.
On March 30, Bruce Willis announces that he is retiring from acting after being diagnosed with aphasia.
April 3 64th Grammy Awards: John Baptiste wins Album of the Year, Olivia Rodrigo wins three awards including Best New Artist, Best Silk Sonic Song (Bruno Mars and Anderson Pack) “Leave the Door Open” .
On April 8, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is banning Will Smith from attending the Oscars for 10 years after he punched host Chris Rock on stage during the 2022 ceremony.
On May 9, Andy Warhol’s portrait of Marilyn Monroe sold for $195 million at an auction in New York, the highest price for an American work of art.
On May 9, Navajo-American composer Raven Chacon receives the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his work Silent Mass.
On May 10, Apple discontinues the iPod music player after 21 years.
May 14 Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine with the song “Stefania” wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy.
14 May Surrealist artist Man Ray’s photograph “Le Violon d’Ingres” (“Ingres’ Violin”) sold for $12.4 million, making it the most expensive ever sold at auction.
26 May The Hindi novel The Sandy Tomb, written by Geetanjali Shri and translated by Daisy Rockwell, wins the International Booker Prize for the first time.
26 May Premiere of ‘ABBA Voyage’, a virtual concert featuring computer-generated images of the Swedish pop group and live musicians at the purpose-built 3,000-seat Abba Arena in London, England; all four members are present, as well as the King and Queen of Sweden.
28 May 75th Cannes Film Festival: Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sorrow wins the Palme d’Or.
28 May UEFA Champions League Final, Paris. Carlo Ancelotti became the first manager to win 4 EUROs when Real beat Liverpool 1-0.
On June 8, Disney+ premiered the Ms. Marvel mini-series featuring the first-ever Disney story about Muslim superheroes starring Iman Vellani.
On June 16, American rocker Bruce Springsteen joined British legend Paul McCartney for a two-song performance (Glory Days; I Wanna Be Your Man) at the Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
2 July The Victoria and Albert Museum in London opens the largest African fashion exhibition in history, Africa Fashion.
On July 12, Netflix’s South Korean drama “The Squid Game” became the first non-English-language series to be nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Drama category.
On August 8, Beyoncé’s single “Break My Soul” became her first No. 1 solo on the Billboard Top 100 chart in 14 years, the same week her album “Renaissance” reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
On August 12, British writer Salman Rushdie was attacked and repeatedly stabbed on stage in front of lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York.
On August 21, Masai Graham wins the Edinburgh Fringe’s Funniest Joke award: “I tried to steal spaghetti from the store, but the security guard saw me and I couldn’t get pasta.” Native speakers say that there is some kind of play on words here and that’s why it’s funny. But what is humor? It’s impossible for non-native speakers to understand. Moreover, reading the 10 best jokes of this festival shows that these are witty statements, but they are not funny at all outside the original language-culture.
Therefore, despite getting into the world news of the Edinburgh Fringe festival, his jokes are not world humor. Modern world humor must be contextually independent of language and culture. Modern world humor is when it’s funny to the whole world, and not just to your friends or compatriots.
September 1 The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power television series premieres on Amazon Prime Video.
10 September Laura Poitras’ documentary film about photographer Nan Goldin “All Beauty and Bloodshed” was recognized as the Best Film at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, which began on August 31. The Italian Luca Guadagnino was recognized as the best director for his work on the film “Entirely and Completely”, in the acting categories the awards were received by Cate Blanchett and Colin Farrell.
September 12 74th Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Drama, Legacy, Outstanding Comedy, Ted Lasso, Outstanding Miniseries, White Lotus. Lee Jung Jae, star of ‘Squid Game’, became the first foreign language show cast member to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama.
September 14 Musician R. Kelly found guilty of new sex crimes in Chicago, including child sexual abuse images.
September 16 Singing drummer Ringo Starr releases his third mini-album with the creative title “EP3” (Extended Play 3).
September 18 Steven Spielberg’s Fabelmans wins the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival.
On October 14, activists from the Just Stop Oil group at the National Gallery in London poured soup from a can on Vincent van Gogh’s painting “Sunflowers”. The activists were detained, the painting was not damaged due to the protective glass on it.
October 21 The new album Midnights by American singer Taylor Swift was released, which set many records.
On October 25, Adidas and Def Jam Recordings are ending their collaboration with Yeezy and GOOD Music with American rapper Kanye West in response to his recent anti-Semitic remarks.
November 28 Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is “gaslighting” and Collins is “permacrisis”. Gaslighting is a form of psychological violence and social parasitism, when a person is forced to suffer and doubt the adequacy of their worldview through devaluing jokes, accusations and intimidation. It can be a way of bullying, mobbing and harassment.
On November 30, UNESCO announces new additions to its list of intangible cultural heritage, including the French baguette, camel-calling oral traditions in the Middle East, and tea traditions in China.
November 30th. Harry Styles’ single “As It Was” was Spotify’s most streamed song in the world in 2022, with Bad Bunny their most streamed artist.
December 8 At the Elden Ring Game Awards for Game of the Year, God of War Ragnarok wins the most awards with six.
18 December Argentina defeats France 4–2 on penalties after a 3–3 draw to win their third 2022 FIFA World Cup title.
Two years of the coronavirus, not so much an epidemic as an infodemic, have seriously undermined the development of culture. Culture feeds on creativity and a positive outlook, not on blockades, restrictions and prohibitions. The war of Russia against Ukraine gave rise to the process of kenseling of Russian culture, a new phenomenon in the history of mankind, which did not reach such a scale even during the years of prosperity of the Nazi-fascist-militarist culture during the Second World War.
Some predictions for 2023
Saxo Bank’s “shocking predictions” for 2023 are impossible to read because of laughter through tears. Judge for yourself.
… The rich people of the world will unite and create something “such”, “awesome”, like the “Manhattan Project”. Resignation of Emmanuel Macron. Gold will rise in price rapidly. Creation of the EU army. Prohibition of meat production by 2030. Brexit referendum. Widespread price controls to curb inflation. OPEC+ and China will leave the IMF. The yen will be pegged to the dollar. Offshore ban will “kill” private business…
And where is the shock? Except, of course, the nonsense about private business, which nothing can ever kill. For private business will flourish even on the radioactive ruins of human civilization.
Also, do not take into account forecasts as extensions of the present, such as The Economist Intelligence Unit (Part 1, Part 2) forecasts of rising global hunger, high inflation, rising interest rates, a global recession, and rising unemployment. These predictions mean nothing, because they are in the old discourse of the old about worldview.
Summarizing conclusions for 2022 and an overview of 2023
None of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s and Saxo Bank’s forecasts for 2022 worked. Conversely, my prediction worked completely. “In 2022, All Humanity will have to choose: Global War or Fascism.” The world has made its choice.
The main activity of forecasters in 2022 in relation to 2023 is trading in uncertainty, chaos and fear about it.
Indeterminacy is a foresight that eliminates all and any certainties, providing for the discernment of the Other. At the same time, Chaos is a complexity that thinking is not able to see, imagine, comprehend in the existing world Order.
Forecasters’ uncertainty is aimed at intimidating clients and then demanding resources (time, money, information, etc.). Uncertainty generates positive pathy only among thinkers, which clients are not (otherwise they would not require forecasts). For forecasters, chaos is a synonym for uncertainty, and not at all an attitude to the proposal of super-complex models as challenges.
It would seem, well, here it is – the world war as the apogee of the long-awaited world crisis. Such expanse for forecasters: take and describe the Other post-war world. All Other. However, customers do not buy it, which means that forecasters do not offer it.
Even astrologers are talking nonsense. Because the stars don’t understand anything about innovations (with one “n”, from “other”, and not from “new”), or it’s astrologers who don’t understand what the stars are telling them 😊.
It would seem that the first large-scale war since the Second World War is taking place, which destroys the world order.
In the eschatological casino, it’s time to bet “zero”. Has a reasonable person become intelligent enough to stay on the brink of a nuclear apocalypse?
Everyone is passionate about playing on the edge of a nuclear foul. No one wants to think, what is beyond the nuclear horizon? Is there life after this war?
This, it would seem, is where the expanse of intellectuals is: deconstruction and construction of the world anew. But no! Can not. They don’t think. They are not curious. They don’t invent…
How wonderful to be in the post-war world without all earthly treasures. An ideal situation for believing Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Taoist Confucians and other Scientologists and Jedi.
Huge opportunities for innovators, entrepreneurs, creators. But no! They don’t innovate, they don’t create, they don’t undertake.
The post-war world is a boon for everyone and for no one in particular. Post-war forecasts are only free. The other is always interesting, although scary for those living in everyday life.
If the world is changing and you are not, then everything will not only be bad for you, everything will be much worse for you than for the world.
Gentlemen, place your bets! What is the first subject to destruction, disappearance, degradation, disintegration, dissolution or, at worst, a significant transformation: states, nations, old corporations, fiat money, identities, groups, organizations, infrastructures, languages, sciences, technologies, arts, etc. .
What is the complex model of the post-war world: poly-existential, poly-transistential, topological-ecumenical, politic?
The motto of the past 2022 – “Dementia and courage” was fully consistent with the events of the year. Dementia is on the side of Russia, courage is on the side of Ukraine
Motto for next year.
Russian version: “Not by washing, so by rolling.”
Ukrainian version: “Not with a club, then with a club.”
This means only persistence in achieving the goals of previous years with the variability of tactical means in the absence of a change in strategy and, to a large extent, in the absence of thinking and strategic approach among the countries of the world, among the elites of the world.
[Writer Irina Mirochnik is the President at IMMER Group & Doctor of Philosophy in Law(PhD)]
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