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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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The Eurasia Center’s mission is to enhance transatlantic cooperation in promoting stability, democratic values and prosperity in Eurasia, from Eastern Europe and Turkey in the West to the Caucasus, Russia and Central Asia in the East.

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UkraineAlert

Feb 1, 2017

Four Easy Ways the EU Can Support Ukraine

By Josh Cohen

Europe’s leadership seems to realize the challenge US President Donald Trump poses to the transatlantic alliance: German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently reminded Europe that “our fate is in our own hands,” while Guy Verhofstadt, president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, argues, “Europe must take its destiny and security in its own […]

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UkraineAlert

Feb 1, 2017

From Fake News to Fake Opinion

By Brian Mefford

A few weeks ago, a colleague asked why I was a part of an organization called the Center for Global Strategic Monitoring (also known as the CGS Monitor). Despite working in foreign policy for seventeen years, I had never heard of this organization. Imagine my surprise when I discovered my photograph and biography listed on […]

Europe & Eurasia Russia

UkraineAlert

Feb 1, 2017

Are the Baltic States Really Indefensible?

By Stephen Blank

One of the great canards of our time is that the Baltic states are indefensible. Although the reasons for making this argument are rarely spelled out, they revolve around the presumption that Russia not only enjoys local conventional superiority, but also that NATO cannot and often implicitly should not defend them and thereby make a […]

NATO Northern Europe

UkraineAlert

Feb 1, 2017

Ukraine Needs Investment, Not Just Solidarity: Time for International Donors to Pony Up

By Anders Åslund

After three years of heroic reforms following the Euromaidan, Ukraine has restored macroeconomic stability. The economy is growing again, but far too slowly. The expected growth is 2.5 percent in 2017. But it should swing up to six to eight percent, as it was for eight years in the early 2000s. The key now is […]

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Jan 31, 2017

Grigas Quoted by Newsweek on Russian Reaction to President Trump’s Executive Order Regarding Immigration

By Agnia Grigas

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Russia

In the News

Jan 30, 2017

Cohen Quoted by RBC Russia on the Trump-Putin Phone Call

By Ariel Cohen

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Russia

In the News

Jan 30, 2017

Hof in Defense News: Can Russian Diplomacy End the Syrian War?

By Frederic C. Hof

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Russia Syria

In the News

Jan 30, 2017

Vershbow Joins Fox Business Network to Discuss the US Relationship with Russia and Ukraine

By Alexander Vershbow

Watch the full interview here.

Russia Ukraine

In the News

Jan 29, 2017

Polyakova Quoted by La Presse on Links between France’s National Front and Russia

By Alina Polyakova

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France Russia

In the News

Jan 27, 2017

Vershbow in the Hill: The Sanctions on Russia are Working, Mr. President: Don’t Lift them Prematurely

By Alexander Vershbow

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Russia

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