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 […]

NEED TO KNOW Between a Hammer and an Anvil HUNGARY Most Central and East European leaders have been outspoken in their condemnation […]

NEED TO KNOW Just Business UKRAINE/ RUSSIA Executives at France-based energy giant TotalEnergies recently announced that they would stop all Russian oil […]

NEED TO KNOW Crisis, Opportunity MALTA Maltese Prime Minister and Labour Party Leader Robert Abela recently handed out tax refund checks as […]

NEED TO KNOW Four Weeks UKRAINE The pregnant woman and her infant who died after a Russian airstrike on a hospital in […]

NEED TO KNOW Egg on Face EUROPE Populist Italian politician Matteo Salvini had egg on his face recently after a press conference […]

NEED TO KNOW A Caucasian Puzzle ARMENIA Armenian President Armen Sarkissian recently resigned from office because he felt that he possessed too […]

NEED TO KNOW An Angry Man RUSSIA Recently, Putin declared that any country that interfered in Russia’s special operations in Ukraine would […]

NEED TO KNOW When Dreams Become Nightmares UKRAINE When Russia recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine shortly […]