The writer, journalist and philosopher (among many other professions) Eugenio d'Ors said: “ Between two explanations, choose the clearest one; between two ways, the simplest; between two expressions, the shorter ”. We like this sentence because it sums up very well what we have tried to do every day in The Conversation from the Politics and Society section throughout 2022.

There is no month of December that we do not look back and be surprised by the amount of news that has occurred that year, but 2022 has really been a succession of events of great importance that have battered the world, and also Spain, without leaving us a single moment to catch our breath, to recover, to process the enormous change we were experiencing.

The Russian invasion of the Ukraine began on February 24 . The world witnessed a new war, this time in the very heart of Europe. The role of the EU was going to be fundamental and we were attentive to all the movements that were taking place around us.

We were trying to offer all perspectives on a conflict when, in the middle of April, the Bucha massacre left the entire world in shock. It was not possible that Russia had used the "anything goes" killing more than 300 people in the Ukrainian city.

More than 100 articles about Ukraine

The world tried to recover from one of the biggest atrocities it has experienced in recent years and meanwhile from The Conversation we continue to call attention to the war from all possible prisms. Throughout the year we have published close to 100 articles on Ukraine and the consequences of the invasion, and the truth is that this is a sign that the conflict has not let up.

Precisely in the middle of a war provoked by Russia, the last (and most popular) president of the USSR, Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev , died in August at the age of 91. He has not been the only historical figure who has left us in 2022. On September 8, Queen Elizabeth II of England died after 70 years of reign, leaving the throne to her son, Charles III .

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