NEED TO KNOW Closing the Circle NATO If Finland joins NATO, the Western Alliance will have opened a potential 800-mile-long front in […]

NEED TO KNOW Moving Out NORWAY Norway has become a key supplier of energy as Europe seeks out alternatives to Russian oil […]

NEED TO KNOW The Grim Reaper’s Harvest UKRAINE The Russo-Ukrainian War has now crossed the three-month mark. So far, it’s a stalemate. […]

NEED TO KNOW Cutting Edge, Blunted EUROPEAN UNION American serial entrepreneur Elon Musk’s proposed purchase of social network Twitter has garnered a […]

NEED TO KNOW Payback UKRAINE Officers with Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) recently seized a man in Sloviansk, a city in the country’s […]

NEED TO KNOW All Hot on the Cyber Front RUSSIA On May 9, as Russian soldiers, tanks and other vehicles paraded through […]

NEED TO KNOW The Boogeymen UKRAINE Ukraine’s Azov Battalion started off eight years ago as a group of far-right activists who launched […]

NEED TO KNOW Outsourcing Futures UNITED KINGDOM Hundreds of migrants are crossing the dangerous English Channel to start new lives in Britain […]

NEED TO KNOW Batons and Bucks NORTHERN IRELAND Sinn Fein, with a history as the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, […]

NEED TO KNOW No Vacancy POLAND The number of Ukrainian war refugees who have fled to Poland has surpassed the population of […]

NEED TO KNOW Coming Together, Coming Apart UKRAINE It’s been two months since Russia invaded Ukraine to push back against alleged NATO […]

NEED TO KNOW Wanted: Redemption RUSSIA A few years before the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian satirist Vladimir Voinovich imagined a […]

NEED TO KNOW Zeitenwende GERMANY Are homeowners in Frankfurt to blame for the atrocities in Ukraine? Some critics think so. “Vladimir Putin’s […]

NEED TO KNOW On a High Wire TURKEY Turkish leaders have said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is illegal. They have delivered […]

NEED TO KNOW Twilight of the Gods RUSSIA-UKRAINE The island of Jersey, a British territory and tax haven in the English Channel, […]

NEED TO KNOW Talk Abroad and at Home SLOVENIA Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa recently joined the premiers of the Czech Republic […]

NEED TO KNOW Fear and Vindication BALTICS Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have become the first European countries to cut off gas imports […]

NEED TO KNOW Sovereignty Un-Stifled FINLAND Finlandization has been proposed as a final status for Ukraine after Russia concludes its ongoing brutal […]

NEED TO KNOW The Wages of the Toady BELARUS Russian soldiers retreating from Ukraine to Belarus are selling goods that they have […]

NEED TO KNOW Ça Marche FRANCE Folks in the small town of Moissac in southern France are on edge. The ethnic composition […]

NEED TO KNOW The Game of Neutrality WORLD As his soldiers fight Russian forces, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently pledged that his country […]

NEED TO KNOW Bullets and Choices MOLDOVA Moldovans looking to the east can see smoke on the horizon as Ukrainian troops fend […]

NEED TO KNOW Little Brother SERBIA American and Western European diplomats recently expressed their disappointment at Kosovo’s decision to disallow people to […]

NEED TO KNOW Russkiy Mir RUSSIA Artur and Vsevolod fled to Istanbul, Turkey from their hometown of Moscow fearing that they might […]