NEED TO KNOW When Spring Comes RUSSIA/ UKRAINE As the US and Germany send advanced armored vehicles to help Ukraine’s cause, Russia has lost almost half of its battle tanks,...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Great Russia RUSSIA/ UKRAINE When Ukrainian forces recently retook the city of Lyman from Russian occupiers, resident Elena Kharkovska was surprised to learn that Russian President Vladimir...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW War Games UKRAINE/ RUSSIA Ukrainian forces recently attacked Russian vehicles after they received a tip through the encrypted, unmoderated social media app Telegram. As NBC News wrote,...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW With Friends Like These RUSSIA/ CAUCASUS Armenians have a unique perspective on Russian power. On the farthest-most edge of Europe, the former Soviet republic in the Caucasus...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW All Hot on the Cyber Front RUSSIA On May 9, as Russian soldiers, tanks and other vehicles paraded through the Red Square to celebrate the Soviet Union’s...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW The Dangers of Desperation RUSSIA/ UKRAINE The once-vaunted, now-demoralized Russian military could be on the brink of collapse – a retired British Air Marshal put the odds...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW Mirror Image CHECHNYA The Russian republic of Chechnya is intimately intertwined with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Having battled Russian forces in an unsuccessful bid for independence in...
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