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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, […]

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In the News

Feb 18, 2017

Nordenman Quoted by CNN on US-Russia Relations

By Magnus Nordenman

Read full article here.

Russia

In the News

Feb 18, 2017

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

By Nabeel Khoury

Watch the full interview here.

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 […]

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In the News

Feb 16, 2017

Polyakova Joins Al Jazeera to Discuss European History

By Alina Polyakova

Listen to full interview here.

Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Feb 16, 2017

Vershbow in the Hill: Ukraine is Making Progress Against Tough Odds. It Deserves US Support.

By Alexander Vershbow

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New Atlanticist

Feb 16, 2017

Lonely GOP Outpost in Brussels Sees Supporters Slowly Emerge

By Teri Schultz

It’s not a secret that expatriate Americans, along with Europeans, tend to feel more closely aligned with the Democratic Party in the United States. Even when overseas liberals supposedly “fell out of love” with Barack Obama or didn’t, more recently, adore Hillary Clinton as much as they had her husband, there’s no contest between any Democratic […]

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NATOSource

Feb 15, 2017

Russia’s Violation of Missile Treaty is a Major Foreign Policy Challenge for Trump

By Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy

While the White House reeled from a scandal that forced the resignation of National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, reports emerged on Tuesday that Russia deployed recently-developed cruise missiles

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Issue Brief

Feb 15, 2017

The return of the military draft

By Elisabeth Braw

This spring, the Swedish government is expected to bring back its military draft after seven years. In this, Sweden will join its neighbor Norway, which never abolished its military draft but did make it gender-neutral last year. A third European country, Lithuania, has also reinstated the draft after abolishing it a decade ago. “The Return […]

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