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In the News

Feb 20, 2017

Stein in War on the Rocks: In Syria, Turkey Finds Itself Boxed in: What’s Next?

By Aaron Stein

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Syria Turkey

In the News

Feb 20, 2017

Vershbow Joins Bloomberg to Discuss the Future of US-Russia Relations

By Alexander Vershbow

Watch the full interview here.

Russia

In the News

Feb 20, 2017

Herbst Joins CBS News to Discuss Peace Plans for Ukraine and Russia

By John E. Herbst

Watch the full interview here.

Russia Ukraine

UkraineAlert

Feb 20, 2017

The Heavens Are Home to More than One Hundred

By Robert McConnell

In the fall of 2013, students took to the Maidan (Independence Square) in Kyiv in protest. Their complaint was with then-President Viktor Yanukovych, who had reneged on his pledge to sign the EU’s Association Agreement with Ukraine and was instead negotiating with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Euromaidan was underway. Additional protesters streamed into the […]

Russia Ukraine

UkraineAlert

Feb 20, 2017

The Nuclear Fallout of a Possible Trump-Putin Détente

By Mariana Budjeryn and Andreas Umland

So far, US President Donald Trump’s Russia policy remains a mystery. Does he want to set in motion a US-Russia rapprochement? If so, sanctions against Russia may be increasingly difficult to sustain. The Trump administration might judge Ukraine’s security and territorial integrity to be a bothersome yet insufficient impediment to mending fences with Putin and, […]

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Feb 18, 2017

Nordenman Quoted by CNN on US-Russia Relations

By Magnus Nordenman

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Russia

In the News

Feb 18, 2017

Khoury Joins Al Jazeera to Discuss the Trump Administration’s Moscow Problem

By Nabeel Khoury

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Russia

In the News

Feb 17, 2017

Grigas in Al Jazeera: The Baltic States: No Easy Target

By Agnia Grigas

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Northern Europe

UkraineAlert

Feb 17, 2017

Who’s Up and Who’s Down in Eastern Ukraine?

By Oleksandr Nykonorov and Volodymyr Yermolenko

The Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) are self-proclaimed entities that emerged in spring 2014 in eastern Ukraine thanks to massive Russian support. Ukraine’s attempts to retake them in spring and summer 2014 were stopped by a full-scale Russian military offensive that August. This more or less fixed the demarcation line between […]

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Feb 16, 2017

Polyakova Joins Al Jazeera to Discuss European History

By Alina Polyakova

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Europe & Eurasia

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