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UkraineAlert

Oct 25, 2016

The Doctor Is In: Ukraine’s New Health Minister Already Shaking Up Sclerotic System

By Michael Getto

Health care in Ukraine has not worked in the past—not for hospitals, clinics, doctors or nurses, and most important, not for the Ukrainian people, regardless of where they live or work, unless they are fortunate enough to pay under the table to receive the most basic care. Entrenched, bureaucratic, and corrupt interests, wielding a combination […]

Ukraine

New Atlanticist

Oct 25, 2016

Trouble with the Philippines

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Tensions between the United States and the Philippines—a former US colony with which Washington has had a mutual defense treaty since 1951—have put a question mark over the future of the relationship and are being watched warily by countries in the Asia-Pacific. Noting that the US-Philippines treaty alliance has been a “foundation for stability and […]

China Russia
Russia's ZAPAD military exercise, Sept. 26, 2013

NATOSource

Oct 25, 2016

The NATO-Russia Exercise Gap… Then, Now, & 2017

By Ian Brzezinski and Nicholas Varangis

Military exercises are a critical means of testing, refining and demonstrating readiness for combat operations. In February 2015, we published a chart comparing the magnitudes of military exercises conducted by NATO and Russia.

NATO Russia

In the News

Oct 25, 2016

Stein Quoted by Bloomberg on Implications of Mayoral Arrest

By Aaron Stein

Read the full article here.

Turkey

In the News

Oct 25, 2016

Cohen in Fox News: The Breathtaking Russian Problem That Awaits Our Next President

By Ariel Cohen

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EconoGraphics

Oct 25, 2016

CETA: Why “Comprehensive” Matters

By Filippos Letsas

On October 14th, the regional parliament of Wallonia, a French-speaking region of 3.6 million people in Belgium, voted to block the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a proposed trade agreement between the European Union (EU) and Canada, which has been negotiated for over 7 years.

Economy & Business European Union
Proposed Rail Baltica

NATOSource

Oct 24, 2016

New Railroad Agreement a National Security Milestone for Baltic Allies, Poland, EU, and NATO

By Olevs Nikers, Jamestown Foundation

Earlier this month (October 2016), the governments of the Baltic States and Poland finally reached all the necessary political, financial and technical agreements to implement one of the most ambitious projects inside the European Union—linking Finland, the Baltic States and Poland with the unified Trans-European Transport Network

European Union International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Oct 24, 2016

With Pipeline, Russia Sustains Dominance of Turkish Gas Market

By John M. Roberts

Russia’s decision to go ahead with Turkish Stream, an offshore pipeline that will bring Russian gas to Turkey, cements its dominance of the Turkish gas market. In political terms, the revival of Turkish Stream—or TurkStream as Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy company, now terms the project—epitomizes the entente developing between Moscow and Ankara, a relationship that […]

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance
Russian President Vladimir Putin, August 31, 2016

NATOSource

Oct 24, 2016

Kremlin Conducts Large Scale Nuclear-Bomb Survival Drills for 40 Million Russians

By Thomas Grove, Wall Street Journal

Russian authorities have stepped up nuclear-war survival measures amid a showdown with Washington, dusting off Soviet-era civil-defense plans and upgrading bomb shelters in the biggest cities.

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In the News

Oct 24, 2016

Ullman in UPI: What Should Americans Be Worried About? Fragile Finances, not Vladimir Putin

By Harlan Ullman

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