NEED TO KNOW Sovereign Hearts POLAND Senior European Union officials are demanding an explanation from Poland over allegations that Polish diplomats sold […]

NEED TO KNOW Roots and Branches UKRAINE Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov resigned in early September. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that, while […]

NEED TO KNOW Fickle Friend SLOVAKIA Since the invasion of Ukraine last year, Russia has become diplomatically isolated from the West – […]

NEED TO KNOW Halal Cash RUSSIA Russia launched a pilot program this month for Islamic banks in the Muslim-majority regions of Tatarstan, […]

NEED TO KNOW The Micro and the Macro ANDORRA/ MONACO/ SAN MARINO Three microstates with a combined population of only 150,000 people […]

NEED TO KNOW Looking for Endings UKRAINE NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently praised Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russian forces that invaded its territory […]

NEED TO KNOW Next Steps RUSSIA DNA tests prove that the leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, died in a […]

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NEED TO KNOW Bregret UNITED KINGDOM Seven years ago, a majority of British voters opted to remove their country from the European […]

NEED TO KNOW An Unholy Temperature SWEDEN Parents with children throwing tantrums in public to get attention often just try to move […]

NEED TO KNOW The War on Culture UKRAINE As Ukrainian soldiers dig in to make advances on the battlefield in what many […]

NEED TO KNOW There, and Back Again EUROPEAN UNION Tunisia recovered more than 900 bodies of migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean […]

NEED TO KNOW Watch Your Step UKRAINE Some say the Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia appears to be failing. “I think that the […]

NEED TO KNOW Going A-Courting RUSSIA Russian President Vladimir Putin was on a charm offensive at the recent Russia–Africa Summit in St. […]

NEED TO KNOW Boilergeddon GERMANY Many environmentalists, including the eco-minded politicians in the Green Party in Germany, believe heat pumps will save […]

NEED TO KNOW The Peace Dividend UKRAINE Former American President Donald Trump recently said that, if he resided in the White House […]

NEED TO KNOW Winning Minds, Losing Hearts SPAIN “Sanchismo” might be the wedge issue in Spain’s general election on July 23. That’s […]

NEED TO KNOW The Autocrat, the Lapdog BELARUS Belarussian artist and political dissident Ales Pushkin, 57, recently died in prison from an […]

NEED TO KNOW Ubiquitous Aggression and Violence SERBIA Throngs of Serbians flocked to the capital of Belgrade recently to protest against Pink […]

NEED TO KNOW Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop RUSSIA The Wagner Group, the Russian military contractor, arrived in the Central African Republic (CAR) […]

NEED TO KNOW Humbled but Unbowed RUSSIA Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has survived Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner Group’s apparent […]

NEED TO KNOW Western Outpost in the East LITHUANIA One of Lithuania’s first post-independence leaders after the fall of the Soviet Union […]

NEED TO KNOW AI, Meet Europe EUROPEAN UNION The European Parliament recently overwhelmingly passed the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act. While the […]

NEED TO KNOW Pugachevshchina RUSSIA In the 1770s, a Cossack named Emelian Pugachev rebelled against Catherine the Great. As described in Alexander […]