The 2022 Hungarian and Serbian national elections resulted in victory for the incumbent leaders up for re-election: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić.

On April 5, the European Union's highest ranking body, the European Commission, initiated a new procedure that would strip Hungary of billions of dollars in funds to discipline Hungary for violating the rule of law and democratic backsliding.

As sanctions imposed on Russia continue to intensify the impact on the Russian economy, President Vladimir Putin made the executive decision to require gas payments by foreign importers to be made in rubles.

As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues and mediation talks between the two parties come to an end in Istanbul, Turkey is in a unique spot not only as a mediator between the two warring nations but also as a so-called neutral nation in regards to the conflict.

Poland is expelling 45 Russian diplomats from the country on the suspicion of using their diplomatic position as a cover for espionage, according to a tweet by Polish Minister of the Interior Mariusz Kaminski on Wednesday, March 25.

About a month into the war between Russia and Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of migrants have entered Moldova, a small, poor, landlocked nation to the west of Ukraine.