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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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In the News

Feb 14, 2017

Castello-Catchot Joins El Financiero to Discuss US-Russia Relations

By Carles Castelló Catchot

Watch full interview here.

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NATOSource

Feb 13, 2017

What Trump Doesn’t Get About NATO and Putin

By By Sohrab Ahmari, Wall Street Journal

So how will the West weather an American commander-in-chief who takes everything personally?

NATO Poland

In the News

Feb 13, 2017

Herbst Joins VOA Russia to Discuss Russia and the Trump Administration

By John Herbst

Watch the full interview here.

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Breaking Aleppo

Report

Feb 13, 2017

Breaking Aleppo

By Maks Czuperski, Emma Beals, Faysal Itani, Eliot Higgins, and Ben Nimmo

The DFRLab's report captures the final months of the breaking of Aleppo using innovative open source methodologies and geolocation analysis.

Conflict Disinformation

In the News

Feb 11, 2017

Nimmo Quoted by BBC on Russian News Source, Sputnik

By Ben Nimmo

Read full article here.

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New Atlanticist

Feb 10, 2017

EU Seeks to Preserve Iran Nuclear Deal

By Ashish Kumar Sen

European Union’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said all sides must abide by terms of the agreement The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said on February 10 that Brussels is committed to the full implementation of the nuclear deal with Iran, and that she came away reassured from her meetings with US officials […]

European Union International Organizations

In the News

Feb 10, 2017

Polyakova Joins VOA to Discuss Russia, European Elections, and Populism

By Alina Polyakova

Watch full interview here

Elections Europe & Eurasia
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NATOSource

Feb 9, 2017

Report: Putin Interested in Extending Nuclear Treaty, but Trump Told Him it is a Bad Deal

By Jonathan Landay and David Rohde, Reuters

In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States,

Nuclear Nonproliferation Russia

New Atlanticist

Feb 9, 2017

Trump Must Stand Up to Putin

US President Donald J. Trump needs to take a strong stance against Russian aggression in order to protect US national security interests, according to an Atlantic Council expert. “This is very dangerous for the United States to show such weakness in the face of Kremlin aggression,” said John E. Herbst, director of the Atlantic Council’s […]

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In the News

Feb 9, 2017

General Breedlove Testifies Before US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the United States, the Russian Federation, and the Challenges Ahead

By General Philip M. Breedlove

Watch the full hearing here.

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Experts