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Finnish Defense Minister Carl Haglund, Jan. 23, 2014

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Apr 23, 2014

Finland Announces Cooperation Agreement with NATO

By Yle

Finland has agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding with NATO stating the nation’s readiness to receive assistance from foreign forces and to maintain military assets such as ships and aircraft.

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Apr 20, 2014

Brattberg: Is There a US Pivot To Europe?

By Erik Brattberg

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Fellow Erik Brattberg writes for the National Interest on what the crisis in Ukraine might mean for NATO and for US interests in Europe: 

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, April 17, 2014

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Apr 18, 2014

NATO: ‘Fly-on-the-Wall’ Film Behind Vladimir Putin’s Rasmussen Jab

By Naftali Bendavid and Ellen Emmerentze, Wall Street Journal

A North Atlantic Treaty Organization spokeswoman blamed a “fly-on-the-wall documentary” as the source of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen was using a Dictaphone while he was Danish prime minister to secretly record a meeting.

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Unidentified gunmen at Simferopol Airport, Feb. 28, 2014

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Apr 18, 2014

Putin’s Way of War and NATO’s Article Five

By Janine Davidson, Council on Foreign Relations

NATO countries have been reluctant to provide support to Ukraine’s military, who is not a member of the transatlantic alliance and therefore not entitled to a collective defensive response under NATO’s Article Five.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, April 17, 2014

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Apr 18, 2014

Stop Blaming NATO for Putin’s Provocations

By James Goldgeier, New Republic

The principal problem with the argument against NATO enlargement is that it never offers an alternative beyond leaving Europe frozen in time in 1989.

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Apr 18, 2014

Call for Submissions: NATO Infographic Contest

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An armed man in Slaviansk, Ukraine April 16, 2014

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Apr 18, 2014

NATO Military Commander: Evidence Proves Russian Forces Already in Ukraine

By Philip M. Breedlove, Allied Command Operations

It’s hard to fathom that groups of armed men in masks suddenly sprang forward from the population in eastern Ukraine and systematically began to occupy government facilities. It’s hard to fathom because it’s simply not true.

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Apr 17, 2014

Healey: “One Risk at a Time” Approach is Outdated

By Jason Healey

Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey joins KPCC’s Airtalk to discuss a new Atlantic Council report and the importance of safeguarding against future Internet shocks:

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One of the ships in NATO's naval group is the BNS Bellis

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Apr 17, 2014

NATO Sending Five Ships to Baltic to Bolster Defense of Eastern Allies

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

NATO is sending part of its naval rapid reaction force to the Baltic Sea as part of measures to step up the defence of its eastern European allies in response to the Ukraine crisis, the alliance said on Thursday.

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Apr 17, 2014

Healey on Safeguarding Against Future Internet Shocks

By Jason Healey

Cyber Statecraft Initiative Director Jason Healey is quoted by Inside Cybersecurity on a new report from the Atlantic Council and the Zurich Insurance Group which emphasizes the need to bolster cybersecurity infrastructure in order to withstand future global shocks to the Internet:

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