Alan Crosby is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
Headlines and analysts' comments from around the world suggest there was little common ground when U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, and then President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
The cruise-missile strike launched by the United States against an air base in Syria in the early hours of April 7 was a specifically targeted attack and not a precursor to war against that Mideast state, according to analysts.
Trapped by Bosnian Serb troops, tens of thousands of Sarajevo residents endured almost four years of daily fire from heavy artillery and snipers in the nearby hills.
Victory on April 2 would give Aleksandar Vucic and his party, which has a majority in parliament, control over the entire legislative and governing process, and some critics warn that could push the Balkan country back into the autocracy Slobodan Milosevic symbolized during his decade in power.
When Pavlo Belavus and his pregnant wife went out for groceries in central Minsk on March 26, he expected it would be a quick trip. Minutes later, they were herded into a police van. He was taken away and charged with participating in an unlawful protest.
For Luka Maksimovic, politics are a laughing matter. For the satirist's alter ego, Ljubisa Preletacevic-Beli, they are now serious business.
Voters head to the polls in the Netherlands on March 15 in the first of several elections across Western Europe likely to test EU unity amid a wave of nationalist and populist sentiment sweeping the continent.
