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The Power Vertical is a blog and podcast for Russia wonks and Kremlin watchers by Brian Whitmore. It covers emerging and developing trends in Russian politics, shining a spotlight on the high-stakes power struggles, machinations, and clashing interests that shape Kremlin policy today.

Host and Eurasia Center Senior Fellow Brian Whitmore invites guest experts to deliver their insights and analysis in this weekly podcast. The Atlantic Council and the Charles T. McDowell Center for Global Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington co-sponsor this production.

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New Atlanticist

Mar 16, 2018

Here’s What to Expect From Yet Another Putin Presidency

By Anders Åslund

Vladimir Putin, who has ruled Russia for the past eighteen years, is set to rule for another six. It is almost predictable how he will act over the course of his next term in office. Putin has constructed a regime based on personal authoritarianism. This regime does not depend on ideology, party or family, but […]

Russia

In the News

Mar 16, 2018

O’Toole in AXIOS: More Coordinated Response Needed to Russian Attacks on the West

By Brian O'Toole

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Russia

In the News

Mar 15, 2018

Farkas Quoted in Vox on Trump’s Russia sanctions

By Evelyn Farkas

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Russia

In the News

Mar 15, 2018

Carpenter Quoted in RFE/RL on New Russia Sanctions

By Michael Carpenter

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Russia

In the News

Mar 15, 2018

Farkas Joins MSNBC to Discuss Russia Chemical Attack

By Evelyn Farkas

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Russia

UkraineAlert

Mar 15, 2018

Sorry, Putin. Crimea still isn’t yours

By Alexander Vershbow

We must make clear to Moscow that any return to “business as usual” in the West’s relations with Moscow cannot begin without the return of the Donbas, and that no improvement in relations can be complete without the return of Crimea.

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New Atlanticist

Mar 15, 2018

US Imposes Sanctions on Russia Over Election Meddling

By Ashish Kumar Sen

US President Donald J. Trump’s administration on March 15 announced new sanctions on Russian individuals and organizations in response to Russian meddling in the 2016 US election and cyberattacks, including attempts to the hack the US energy grid. This is the most significant action by the Trump administration against Russia to date. The sanctions target […]

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In the News

Mar 15, 2018

O’Toole Quoted in Reuters on U.S. Slapping Sanctions on Russians

By Brian O'Toole

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Russia

In the News

Mar 14, 2018

Farkas Quoted in NYT on US Response to Poisoning of Ex-Spy in Britain

By Evelyn Farkas

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Russia

New Atlanticist

Mar 14, 2018

Britain Expels Russian Diplomats Over Attempted Assassination. Is that Enough?

By Ashish Kumar Sen

British Prime Minister Theresa May on March 14 expelled twenty-three Russian diplomats and suspended high-level contacts with Moscow after blaming Russia for poisoning a former Russian spy and his daughter in the United Kingdom. The expulsion, which May described as the largest in more than thirty years, will add further strain to an already tense […]

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