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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, December 4, 2009

NATOSource

May 8, 2014

NATO Official: Russia Now An Adversary

By Robert Burns, AP

After two decades of trying to build a partnership with Russia, NATO now feels compelled to start treating Moscow as an adversary, the alliance’s second-ranking official said Thursday.

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REUTERS/Marko Djurica

New Atlanticist

May 8, 2014

Putin Pauses His Ukraine Campaign

By Irena Chalupa

Secession Referendum Appears Ill-Prepared – and Kyiv Depicts a Plan to Falsify Vote Result After weeks of supporting plans by pro-Russian separatists to hold a referendum in southeastern Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s call yesterday for a delay in the vote is a tactical retreat in his campaign to prevent the consolidation of a truly […]

Russia Ukraine

Trade in Action

May 8, 2014

TTIP Action: May 8

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Trade in Action

May 8, 2014

TTIP Action: May 6

By Global Business & Economics Program

TTIP Action aggregates the latest news and best analysis from across the United States and European Union on the ongoing negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Economy & Business Trade and tariffs

MENASource

May 8, 2014

MENASource Discussions: Libya Under the Microscope

By MENASource

A new Atlantic Council report examines the threats to Libya’s stability, provides a detailed mapping of the militia landscape, and details policy options for the Libyan government and its international partners. In Libya’s Faustian Bargains: Breaking the Appeasement Cycle, the authors attribute the cycle of violence, intractable political stalemate, and weakened economy to the Libyan authorities’ […]

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MENASource

May 8, 2014

Top News: Bahraini Shia Youth Risk Radicalization as Political Talks Stall

By MENASource

Scenes of masked men marching with petrol bombs and denouncing Bahrain’s king, broadcast in online videos in recent months, might once have been dismissed as a cry for attention by groups from Bahrain’s majority Shia community seeking to shore up a flagging cause for democratic reform.

MENASource

May 8, 2014

Top News: Sabbahi Vows to Continue Brotherhood Ban; Reject US Assistance

By EgyptSource

Hamdeen Sabbahi vowed to maintain the ban on the Muslim Brotherhood if he is elected president.

US F-15 Eagle tracking Russian Tu-95 Bear Bomber near coast of Alaska, Sept. 28, 2008

NATOSource

May 8, 2014

US General: Russia Flying Sorties Near California, Linked to Ukraine Crisis

By David Brunnstrom, Reuters

The head of U.S. air forces in the Pacific said on Monday that Russia’s intervention in Ukraine had been accompanied by a significant increase in Russian air activity in the Asia-Pacific region in a show of strength and to gather intelligence.

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New Atlanticist

May 8, 2014

Where’s the US on Ukraine?

By R. Nicholas Burns

Vladimir Putin’s campaign to divide, destabilize, and dismantle Ukraine has reached a new phase with this week’s surge of violence in the pivotal Black Sea port of Odessa. As bands of armed ethnic Russian brigands battle Ukrainian government security forces in cities big and small throughout eastern Ukraine, the stakes for the West become all […]

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REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov

New Atlanticist

May 8, 2014

Russian Human Rights Activists Challenge Putin on Crimea Seizure

By James Rupert

A Mathematics Professor Leads Dissenters Current and former official human rights advisors to President Vladimir Putin have issued a report that undermines his claim to have legitimately annexed Crimea – and they caused a stir this week by posting it on a Kremlin website. Three activists, including one current and one former member of the […]

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