On January 20th, 2022, the Thai cabinet extended the state of emergency nationwide by two months until the end of March 2022, ostensibly to deal with the local Covid 19 situation. The extionsion was proposed by the National Security Council (NSC). The NSC functions as the operations unit of the government's Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration and is supervised by Thailand's Prime Minister, Dictator, Songwriter and the man of many words Prayut Chan-o-cha. This is the 16th extension of the special law. The government insistes that the extension is necessary to facilitate the swift and integrated implementation of measures to control Covid-19 for the sake of public safety. This special law was enacted March 26th, 2020, and gives Prayut Chan-o-cha wide-ranging powers, including a ban on large gatherings to prevent anti-government protests.

Khaosod English: Russian Ambassador Defends Invasion of Ukraine, Appreciates Thailand’s Neutral Stance

In his 70th year, after more than two decades at the helm of Russia, Putin seems determined to "put right" what he believes has gone fundamentally wrong in the past century: the end of the Soviet Union, the loss of Russian great power, the loss of territories that once belonged to the Russian Tsarist Empire. As early as 2005, in his annual State of the Nation address, Putin called the disintegration of the Soviet Union the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century".

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