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New Atlanticist

New Atlanticist is the Atlantic Council’s public policy blog. It seeks to provide expert analysis, accessible to a broad readership, on the most pressing issues facing the transatlantic community.

Inflection Points

A weekly column by Atlantic Council President and CEO Frederick Kempe, Inflection Points focuses on the global challenges facing the United States and how to best address them.

UkraineAlert

UkraineAlert is a comprehensive online publication that provides regular news and analysis on developments in Ukraine’s politics, economy, civil society, and culture, with commentary drawn from a wide-array of thought-leaders, politicians, experts, and activists from Ukraine and the global community.

MENASource

The MENASource blog follows the transitions in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Syria, as well as other political and economic changes throughout the region. MENASource provides a platform for diverse perspectives from the US, Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa on major issues that are at stake in the post-Arab Spring era.

SyriaSource

SyriaSource, a project of the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, amplifies Syrian voices, alongside Atlantic Council researchers and fellows, to showcase issues most pertinent to Syrians. The blog features news and analysis directly from Syrian sources as well as international experts.

IranSource

IranSource provides a holistic look at Iran’s internal dynamics, global and regional policies, and posture through unique analysis of current events and long-term, strategic issues related to Iran.

EnergySource

EnergySource provides analysis and insight on key energy issues, making sense of key energy trends and their implications for geopolitics, geoeconomics, policy, and markets.

AfricaSource

AfricaSource provides in-depth analysis and incisive commentary by the Africa Center’s experts on the people and events shaping the present and future of the world’s most dynamic regions.

Econographics

Econographics help visualize and contextualize the most important trends and developments in the global economy.

TURKEYSource

TURKEYSource provides analysis and insight on Turkey and related developments with coverage from Turkish, regional, and international experts. This blog offers timely news and commentary on key issues related to transatlantic relations, energy, business, migration, and key players.

SouthAsiaSource

SouthAsiaSource is the Atlantic Council’s premier publication for South Asian affairs, covering areas such as economics and trade, governance, education, climate and environmental issues, politics and diplomacy, migration, security, and other areas.

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New Atlanticist

Jun 2, 2014

DIRECT TRANSLATION: Life in Wartime Donetsk; The Great Tradition of the NKVD

By Irena Chalupa

Ukraine’s war realities are increasingly being felt in its media. Stories about life under siege are frequent fare on the evening newscasts,  on news web sites and in traditional print media. Yevhen Shybalov, the Donetsk correspondent of Ukraine’s respected weekly newspaper Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Weekly Mirror), which is published both Ukrainian and Russian language versions, is a popular […]

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Tens of thousands of Ukrainians gather on Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti in December, part of the three-month protest that brought down the Kremlin-dependent government of President Viktor Yanukovych. (CC License)

New Atlanticist

Jun 2, 2014

To Liberate Ukraine, Get the Maidan Back in the Fight

By James Rupert

Let’s consider for a moment what has worked, and not worked, in Ukraine’s fight for freedom from Russian domination. What worked was the Maidan – the massive, determined and (almost completely) non-violent protest movement that overthrew the corrupt, Kremlin-dependent President Viktor Yanukovych. What has not worked has been the Ukrainian government’s patchwork counter-insurgency offensive against […]

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Flag at NATO HQ

NATOSource

Jun 2, 2014

Russia Warns of ‘Negative’ Consequences if Sweden and Finland Join NATO

By ITAR-TASS

The accession to NATO by Sweden and Finland will lead to dangerous negative changes in the Baltic Sea Region, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.

NATO NATO Partnerships

MENASource

Jun 2, 2014

An IMF Program for Egypt Finally?

By Mohsin Khan

With the election of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the prospects of an Egyptian agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a program have brightened.

Economy & Business Elections

MENASource

Jun 2, 2014

Eight Killed, Fifteen Wounded in Clashes in Libya’s Benghazi

By MENASource

Eight people were killed and fifteen wounded when fighting broke out today between army units loyal to retired general Khalifa Haftar and Islamist militants in Benghazi. The Ansar al-Sharia militant group attacked a camp belonging to army special forces, residents there said, and Haftar’s forces later joined the battle using combat helicopters.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk, May 8, 2014

NATOSource

Jun 2, 2014

German Official Discloses that NATO To Discuss Sending More Troops to Poland

NATO defence ministers will discuss temporarily reinforcing forces in Poland when they meet in Brussels this week

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MENASource

Jun 2, 2014

Top News: Egypt Publicly Seeking to Monitor Social Media

By EgyptSource

Egypt’s interior ministry has asked foreign technology firms to help it monitor social media websites to prevent crime and track down terrorists, officials said on Monday. Seven foreign firms have offered proposals for monitoring social media websites, an interior ministry official said. 

Russian missile in Moscow Victory Day Parade

NATOSource

Jun 2, 2014

Russia Announces Live Fire Missile Exercise During Obama Visit to Poland

By ITAR-TASS, RIA Novosti. and RT

From ITAR-TASS:  Russian military forces will hold live fire drills of missile systems Iskander-M and will test-launch missiles from bombers within the war games planned in missile formations in the Western Military District

Missile Defense Poland

New Atlanticist

Jun 2, 2014

Ukraine News Roundup | June 2

By Irena Chalupa

Opinion-Makers: How Russia Is Winning the Propaganda War from Spiegel In Russian-ruled Crimea, a crackdown on journalists and activists who don’t toe Kremlin line from The Kyiv Post Russia’s FSB launches first Crimean show trial from Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Moscow Patriarchate Not Marching in Lockstep with Kremlin on Ukraine  from The Interpreter A Russian […]

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MENASource

Jun 2, 2014

Indirectly Aiding Hezbollah?

By MENASource

Is the United States indirectly helping Hezbollah by providing aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)? US assistance—in excess of $1 billion since 2006—has been directed towards building the capacity of the Lebanese military as an independent institution, moderating the tension between the Shia militant group Hezbollah and Sunni rivals. But the aid relationship is […]

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