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UkraineAlert

Mar 20, 2018

Why Nord Stream 2 Isn’t Just an Ordinary Pipeline

By Diane Francis

Of all nations, Germany must heed the lessons of history, both current and past. This begs the question as to why Germany would help Europe become more energy dependent on a country like Russia that ignores norms, contracts, laws, treaties, and borders. And yet that is exactly what Germany is about to do if it […]

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Report

Mar 19, 2018

Kremlin aggression in Ukraine: the price tag

By Anders Åslund

“Since the annexation, Russia has carried out extensive confiscation of public and private property, which it has referred to as ‘nationalization’ under Russian Federation legislation,” writes Dr. Anders Åslund, in Kremlin Aggression in Ukraine: The Price Tag, a new report by the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. If Kyiv loses the occupied Crimea and Donbas forever, […]

Conflict
Defense Policy

In the News

Mar 19, 2018

Fishman Joins MSNBC to Discuss Russian Election and U.S. Policy Toward Russia

By Edward Fishman

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Russia

In the News

Mar 19, 2018

Stein Quoted in AFP on Turkey and Syrian War

By Aaron Stein

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Turkey

In the News

Mar 19, 2018

Haring Quoted in The Washington Times on Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption

By Melinda Haring

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Ukraine

In the News

Mar 19, 2018

Fried Quoted in CBC on Russian Online Troll Farm Meddling in Elections

By Daniel Fried

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Russia

In the News

Mar 19, 2018

Farkas Quoted in Vox on Putin’s Reelection

By Evelyn Farkas

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Russia

In the News

Mar 19, 2018

Farkas Joins CNBC to Discuss Putin’s Re-Election Victory

By Evelyn Farkas

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Russia

UkraineAlert

Mar 19, 2018

Ukraine should remove “stringent” disclosure law on civil society

By Gina S. Lentine

There has been an ominous change in the state of freedom of association in Ukraine over the last year. One of Ukraine’s leading activists, Vitaliy Shabunin of the Anti-Corruption Action Center (AntAC), is facing trial on criminal charges and could receive up to five years in prison. The charges are at best exaggerated and at […]

Corruption
Rule of Law

New Atlanticist

Mar 19, 2018

Full Speed Ahead to Brexit?

By Bart J. Oosterveld, Jörn Fleck, and Álvaro Morales Salto-Weis

Brexit may not be avoidable after all. The United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) announced on March 19 that they have agreed on a “large part” of an agreement that would result in Britain leaving the EU.

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