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March 01, 2022

Profiles in Courage

NEED TO KNOW Profiles in Courage UKRAINE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/a38e4a90-b87b-9e52-9b4f-f6cd33e8942c.png"] On the day Russia invaded Ukraine, the New York Times ran an op-ed piece from a Ukrainian journalist arguing that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a 44-year-old former comedian and actor, was in over his head. A week later, it’s an understatement...

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February 28, 2022

Meanwhile, On the Home Front

Editor’s Note: Some subscribers reported problems with Friday’s edition of DailyChatter including the size of the newsletter text. We have resolved the technical issue causing the problem. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. NEED TO KNOW Meanwhile, On the Home Front RUSSIA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/db8acf88-8b4f-4b1c-bf9a-1e71d4eee94b.png"] Elizaveta Peskova, the daughter of...

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February 25, 2022

Bully, Unmasked

[featurecontent] NEED TO KNOW Bully, Unmasked UKRAINE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/a38e4a90-b87b-9e52-9b4f-f6cd33e8942c.png"] Air raid sirens sounded in Kyiv Thursday as the Ukrainian government warned of bombs following Russia's morning attack on dozens of targets across Ukraine. Streets were clogged with locals trying to withdraw money or stock up on supplies – some also...

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February 23, 2022

The Borderland

NEED TO KNOW The Borderland RUSSIA/UKRAINE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/2aaf5c8d-a4e6-42cf-9dd9-f761d6bfed83.png"] Ukraine means “borderland” in Slavic languages. Today, the fate of the country could determine a new frontier between Eastern and Western Europe. That's because when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to roll into two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine on...

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February 22, 2022

Greasing the Wheels

NEED TO KNOW Greasing the Wheels ITALY [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/13ef7d88-e231-4aaa-9970-c3480223c0d5.png"] The Italian judicial system took almost 20 years to determine whether a couple living near Genoa could compel their neighbors to stop flushing their toilet at night. Recently, the southern European country’s top court ruled in the couple’s favor, determining...

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February 18, 2022

A Race to the Bottom

[featurecontent] NEED TO KNOW A Race to the Bottom FRANCE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/d78d9fd2-f0df-4e59-9bd4-334bffdc4974.png"] Right-wing French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour recently described Roubaix, a town in northern France that is home to a large Muslim community, as "Afghanistan two hours from Paris." A pundit and author, Zemmour was clearly playing to voters...

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February 16, 2022

Her Majesty’s Prerogative

NEED TO KNOW Her Majesty's Prerogative UNITED KINGDOM [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/db250264-45f9-48fa-be6e-ab4d2ef0d6a5.png"] Queen Elizabeth recently announced plans for a weekend in June to celebrate her platinum jubilee, or 70 years on the throne, the longest reign in British history. As the queen’s website detailed, festivities include a tree-planting initiative called the...

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February 11, 2022

A Revanchist Reset

[featurecontent] NEED TO KNOW A Revanchist Reset UKRAINE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/a38e4a90-b87b-9e52-9b4f-f6cd33e8942c.png"] Despite the buildup of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border, Russian President Vladimir Putin probably doesn’t really want to launch a full-scale war that might drag in the United States and European powers, argued Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev recently...

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February 01, 2022

The Toady’s Dilemma

NEED TO KNOW The Toady’s Dilemma BELARUS [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3dffa11e-ac63-436f-a4ed-735a6dabc4a6.png"] Totalitarian President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus recently issued a message to opposition figures who have left the former Soviet republic in Eastern Europe. “My advice to you: come home, repent and kneel,” Lukashenko said during his annual state of the...

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January 28, 2022

A Contraption Called Democracy

[featurecontent] NEED TO KNOW A Contraption Called Democracy PORTUGAL [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/e9920e0b-df86-4240-9933-aed7de687bff.png"] In late 2019, the Atlantic magazine portrayed the government of Prime Minister António Costa in Portugal as a rare champion for the European left during a period when the far-right appeared ascendant throughout the continent. In Portuguese, people called...

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January 25, 2022

Dissing Information

NEED TO KNOW Dissing Information WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] Late last year, a bank executive from Monaco seemingly tweeted about the white birch forests, tasty noodles and hard-working cotton farmers of Xinjiang, ignoring highly credible claims that Chinese officials are committing genocide against the Uyghur Muslim community in the province....

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January 24, 2022

The Technocrat and the Tycoon

NEED TO KNOW The Technocrat and the Tycoon ITALY [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/13ef7d88-e231-4aaa-9970-c3480223c0d5.png"] Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, 85, was recently admitted to the hospital after dropping out of the running to become president of his country. A billionaire media magnate, Berlusconi endured numerous sex and corruption scandals during his three...

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January 21, 2022

Divided They Stay

[featurecontent] NEED TO KNOW Divided They Stay NORTHERN CYPRUS [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/0f41b89c-d225-563a-f204-63defe2e1841.png"] Turkish Cypriots for years have been reluctant to reunify with the Greek side of their island. The interethnic conflicts – specifically ethnic Greeks massacring ethnic Turks – and other issues that triggered the Turkish military to invade and partition the...

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January 18, 2022

Unbending Science

NEED TO KNOW Unbending Science WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] Australia deported Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic after federal court judges upheld the immigration minister’s decision to override an earlier court decision to allow him to play in the Australian Open. As the Associated Press wrote, officials kicked him out because...

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January 11, 2022

The Long Goodbye

NEED TO KNOW The Long Goodbye BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3eb41941-dc99-4c07-a44c-b49cace98355.png"] Fikret Alic appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1992 during the Bosnian War. Emaciated, he was standing behind the barbed wire of the Trnopolje camp run by Bosnian Serbs. The treatment he suffered recalled the worst of...

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January 06, 2022

The Honey-do-list

NEED TO KNOW The Honey-do-list UKRAINE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3889a598-67d0-4b0d-b019-11292382b589.png"] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former television star and comedian, has installed friends and colleagues from his comedy studio into the top echelons of his government. That’s his prerogative as the head of state of the former Soviet republic who was elected...

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January 03, 2022

Once More Unto the Breach

NEED TO KNOW Once More Unto the Breach WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] As the Omicron variant of the coronavirus spread around the globe, the Netherlands instituted a nationwide lockdown that made the Dutch feel like it was 2020 all over again. Non-essential businesses, bars and restaurants are closed until mid-January, the...

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December 29, 2021

Scratches in the Teflon

NEED TO KNOW Scratches in the Teflon UNITED KINGDOM [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/db250264-45f9-48fa-be6e-ab4d2ef0d6a5.png"] The former speaker of the British House of Commons, John Bercow, recently told Good Morning Britain that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was the worst premier he had ever known. A formerly Conservative parliamentarian who recently switched to the...

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December 22, 2021

Woke, à la Française

NEED TO KNOW Woke, à la Française FRANCE [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/d78d9fd2-f0df-4e59-9bd4-334bffdc4974.png"] In the United States, the term “woke” generally means understanding and acknowledging the historical legacy and contemporary impact of racism and related injustices against African Americans, particularly how slavery and segregation yielded racist policies and attitudes that resonate today...

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December 17, 2021

A Global Addiction

[featurecontent] NEED TO KNOW A Global Addiction WORLD [map url="https://mcusercontent.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/486ddb7e-3777-4543-ab44-3536360a3ce9.png"] At the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow last month, more than 40 countries pledged to phase out their use of coal. Richer countries expect to end coal burning in the 2030s, the BBC reported. Developing nations have...

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