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UkraineAlert

Jul 19, 2016

Russia Faces a Darkening Future. Is There Any Way Out?

By David Satter

Editor’s Note: This article is an excerpt from Satter’s new book, The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terrorism and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin. Satter will give a book reading at Politics & Prose in Washington on July 24 at 5 pm. The best future for Russia would be the […]

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Jul 19, 2016

Bryza, Stein Quoted by Business Insider on Loyalty Split Within Turkish Military

By Bryza and Stein

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Turkey

In the News

Jul 19, 2016

Stein Quoted by the Daily Beast on the Attempted Turkey Coup

By Aaron Stein

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Turkey

In the News

Jul 19, 2016

Stein in War on the Rocks: Talking Turkey’s Coup: Erdogan, a Fractured Military, and the Gulen Movement

By Aaron Stein

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Turkey

UkraineAlert

Jul 19, 2016

Tymoshenko and Kolomoyskyi Score Wins in Ukraine’s Special Elections

By Brian Mefford

Populism is on the rise in Ukraine, so it’s little surprise that Fatherland party leader Yulia Tymoshenko and oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi gained the most seats in Ukraine’s special parliamentary elections on July 17. Elections were held in seven districts across the country. Fatherland candidates won in Kherson and Poltava, while Kolomoyskyi’s candidate won in Volyn […]

Ukraine

In the News

Jul 19, 2016

Bryza, Stein Quoted by Christian Science Monitor on Turkey’s Potential Gulen Extradition

By Bryza, Stein

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Turkey United States and Canada

In the News

Jul 19, 2016

Stein Quoted by Christian Science Monitor on Turkey’s Crackdown Post-Coup

By Aaron Stein

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Turkey

In the News

Jul 19, 2016

Wilson Quoted by Financial Times on Turkey Conspiracy Theories

By Ross Wilson

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Turkey

In the News

Jul 19, 2016

Stein Quoted by the Daily Beast on the Problems the Attempted Turkey Coup Poses for the War on ISIS

By Aaron Stein

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MENASource

Jul 19, 2016

Parsing the Islamic State’s Nice Attack Claims

By Mona Alami

This year’s Bastille Day will go down in France’s modern history as its most bloody. On July 14, 31-year-old Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel ploughed through festive crowds in the Mediterranean city of Nice, killing 84 and injuring 200 others. France’s struggles with terror—whether through lone attacks in Nice or the coordinated Islamic State attacks in Paris […]

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