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NATOSource

Oct 4, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on October 3

By NATO

New Atlanticist

Oct 4, 2011

Russian Musical Chairs: A Country on the Stop

By Ross Wilson

President Dmitri Medvedev’s public dressing down and dismissal of his country’s deputy prime minister and finance minister, Alexei Kudrin, on September 26 has attracted widespread attention in Russia and abroad.

Russia

New Atlanticist

Oct 4, 2011

The Train Wreck

By Shuja Nawaz

Complicated and fraught, U.S.-Pakistan relations took a turn for the worse with Adm. Mike Mullen’s Sept. 22 testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee in which he all but declared Pakistan as sponsoring terrorism in Afghanistan. Admiral Mullen referred to evidence linking Inter-Services Intelligence to the attacks: “Extremist organizations serving as proxies of the […]

New Atlanticist

Oct 4, 2011

Medvedev Thinks He’s President of Russia

By James Joyner

The recent news that Vladimir Putin would be running for his old office as president of Russia was greeted by bemusement with many Western observers, myself included, who have been under the impression that Putin has been running the country from a different chair and that little would change. One person who seems not to […]

Russia

NATOSource

Oct 4, 2011

Libya’s interim government promises to change leaders after the fall of Gaddafi’s home city

By Kareem Fahim and Rick Gladstone, the New York Times

New Atlanticist

Oct 4, 2011

Europe’s Sovereign Liquidity Crisis

By Ben Carliner

It really is a shame about Greece. Not that the Greeks deserve sympathy for fudging the numbers to qualify for Euro accession, or their culture of tax evasion, or the political patronage that defines their public sector. Rather, it is a shame that Greece collapsed first. No other European economy is guilty of the types […]

Economy & Business European Union

NATOSource

Oct 4, 2011

John Bryan to lead host committee for the NATO/G-8 summits

By Kristen Mack, the Chicago Tribune

From Kristen Mack, the Chicago Tribune:  Mayor Rahm Emanuel has tapped a group of experienced fundraisers to help cash-strapped Chicago come up with money to host the NATO and G-8 summits next spring.

New Atlanticist

Oct 3, 2011

Cyberterror is Aspirational Blather

By Jason Healey

The Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative recently hosted a conference call to discuss the terrorist use of the Internet and how it has evolved in the ten years since 9/11.

NATOSource

Oct 3, 2011

NATO Secretary General addresses recent violence in Kosovo

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  We have seen sharp reminders of how quickly tensions can arise, and how important NATO’s mission remains.

NATOSource

Oct 3, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on October 2

By NATO

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