Blowing Up
NEED TO KNOW Blowing Up ICELAND A volcano was predicted to erupt just as Icelanders head to the polls to elect a […]
Choosing a Direction
NEED TO KNOW Choosing a Direction ROMANIA Romanian voters are set to elect a new parliament and president over the next few […]
Outsourcing Crisis
NEED TO KNOW Outsourcing Crisis EUROPEAN UNION Around 36 percent fewer migrants attempted to cross into the European Union in the first […]
Last Man Falling
NEED TO KNOW Last Man Falling UKRAINE Ukraine’s plan for victory against Russia is well-known. As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently told […]
The Scent of Desperation
NEED TO KNOW The Scent of Desperation GEORGIA Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili had a question recently for Bidzina Ivanishvili, a pro-Russian billionaire […]
The King’s Gambit
NEED TO KNOW The King’s Gambit MOLDOVA Moldovan police recently foiled an “unprecedented” Russian plot to meddle in the East European country’s […]
Metastasis
NEED TO KNOW Metastasis SWEDEN Criminals in Sweden are making big money selling strawberries at roadside stands. These allegations might seem silly, […]
Cutting the Gordian Knot
NEED TO KNOW Cutting the Gordian Knot GERMANY Twenty-five years ago, Germany was famously called the “sick man of Europe.” In the […]
Hoping For a Thaw
NEED TO KNOW Hoping For a Thaw BULGARIA Freedom of information advocacy group Reporters Without Borders once concluded that Bulgarian media mogul […]
Last Man Falling
NEED TO KNOW Last Man Falling UKRAINE Ukraine’s plan for victory against Russia is well-known. As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently told […]
Disaster Management
NEED TO KNOW Disaster Management AUSTRIA Austrian politicians running for parliament before elections on Sept. 29 paused their campaigns recently after flooding […]
Base Instincts
NEED TO KNOW Base Instincts CZECH REPUBLIC The right-wing Freedom and Direct Democracy Party’s political billboard in Wenceslas Square in the capital […]
Mother Russia
NEED TO KNOW Mother Russia RUSSIA For Russia to remain a great power in the world, the world needs more Russian babies. […]
Neighborly Relations
NEED TO KNOW Neighborly Relations NORTH MACEDONIA Five months after he was elected to office in early May, North Macedonia’s nationalist, right-wing […]
The Price of Stardom
NEED TO KNOW The Price of Stardom ALBANIA “Impossibly blue skies, a wild and dramatic coast, and warm Mediterranean waters lapping at […]
Blinis in Buenos Aires
NEED TO KNOW Blinis in Buenos Aires RUSSIA Russian émigrés are buying apartments, beauty salons, restaurants, and other assets in Argentina and […]
Flipping the Script
NEED TO KNOW Flipping the Script RUSSIA-UKRAINE Top Ukrainian commander Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi boasted this week that his troops now control almost […]
‘Mother’ of Change
NEED TO KNOW ‘Mother’ of Change ITALY Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni calls her plan to change the structure of governance in […]
Human Shields
NEED TO KNOW Human Shields RUSSIA The return of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and other […]
Pull Harder
NEED TO KNOW Pull Harder GREECE Greece recently adopted a six-day working week to maintain its workforce as its population ages, but […]
Carrying On
NEED TO KNOW Carrying On UKRAINE Tatiana Putria is a nurse in the Kherson region of Ukraine. “I am not a hero, […]
So Far, So Close
NEED TO KNOW So Far, So Close POLAND From the mid-16th Century to the late 18th Century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a […]
The Battles and the War
NEED TO KNOW The Battles and the War UNITED KINGDOM/ FRANCE Right-wing politicians opposed to immigration, the concentration of power in Brussels, […]
Near Abroad Politics
NEED TO KNOW Near Abroad Politics GEORGIA Earlier this year, Georgian civilians clashed with riot police in Tbilisi, the capital of the […]