Bangladesh completed a 3-0 one-day international series whitewash over New Zealand by winning the final game in Fatullah by four wickets last Novemeber.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on January 15 met the prime minister of Bangladesh for talks that included the signing of a $1 billion arms contract. Bangladesh's biggest ever arms contract since Independence.
On July 3, the Egyptian army chief General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi removed the country's then-incumbent President Mohamed Morsi from power and suspended the Egyptian constitution.