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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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Mar 24, 2016

A Threat to National Security

By Eurasia Center

“People in Russia Prefer not to talk about Kadyrov,” said Ilya Yashin, Deputy Chairman People’s Freedom Party (PARNAS), at the Atlantic Council on March 24, 2016. Mr. Yashin is seeking to break that taboo with his new report, “A Threat to National Security.” The report paints a terrifying portrait of the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov […]

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UkraineAlert

Mar 23, 2016

Ukraine and Turkey’s Newly Strengthened Relationship

By Hannah Thoburn

Turkey and Ukraine, including Crimea, control 71 percent of the Black Sea coast between the two of them. With Ukraine to the north and Turkey directly to the south, the two nations have long been collegial when working together on regional problems, but their reasonably friendly relationship has generally been subordinated to more pressing issues. […]

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B61 nuclear bomb exhibit at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Feb. 24, 2012

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Mar 23, 2016

Adjusting NATO’s Nuclear Policies: A Five Step Program

By Franklin C. Miller

As the Wales Summit recognized, NATO faces a potential threat of attack by conventional force elements, both in traditional formations and in the form of “little green men.”

NATO Nuclear Nonproliferation

UkraineAlert

Mar 23, 2016

Separatists Launch New “Passportization” Strategy in Eastern Ukraine

By Agnia Grigas

On March 16, the separatist leaders of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) began issuing their own passports in eastern Ukraine. The territory’s militant leader Aleksander Zakharchenko called the move “a very important step toward building statehood” that will serve to solidify and formalize the territory’s separatist status. Earlier, Moscow had planned to hand out […]

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Mar 23, 2016

Grigas Quoted by Natural Gas Europe on Nord Stream 2

By Agnia Grigas

Read the full article here.

Energy & Environment Energy Markets & Governance

UkraineAlert

Mar 23, 2016

Memo to Secretary Kerry: Russia Is Weaker Than You Think

By Ariel Cohen

When US Secretary of State John Kerry goes to Moscow this week, he should keep in mind that Russia’s recent military engagements in Ukraine and Syria represent an attempt to manipulate perceptions. The Kremlin wants to position itself as a peer of America, open to cooperation against ISIS, but capable of military threats against US […]

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From left: Christian Caryl, Editor at Foreign Policy Magazine, moderated a discussion on “Confronting Far-Right Extremism in Europe” with Alina Polyakova, Deputy Director of the Atlantic Council’s Dinu Patriciu Center; Marlene Laruelle, Professor at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs; and Susan Corke, Director of Countering Antisemitism and Extremism at Human Rights First, at the Atlantic Council on March 22. (Atlantic Council)

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Mar 22, 2016

Confronting Far-Right Extremism in Europe

By Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center

The Atlantic Council hosted a discussion on the rise and threat of far-right populism in Europe, featuring the release of a new policy brief on the topic, What’s Left of Europe If the Far Right Has Its Way? by Alina Polyakova and Anton Shekhovtsov.

Europe & Eurasia European Union

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Mar 22, 2016

REPORT LAUNCH: Securing Ukraine’s Energy Sector

By Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center

On April 4, 2016, the Atlantic Council’s Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative launched a report, Securing Ukraine’s Energy Sector, authored by Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center’s Resident Senior Fellow, Anders Åslund.

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Mar 22, 2016

Vajdich in National Review: What Putin’s Embrace of Trump Tells Us About Trump

By Daniel P. Vajdich

Read the full article here.

Elections Politics & Diplomacy

UkraineAlert

Mar 22, 2016

Russian Court Finds Ukraine’s Defiant Pilot Savchenko Guilty

By Irena Chalupa

Nothing in the Nadiya Savchenko case has been easy or fast. The famed Ukrainian pilot whom Russia has charged with complicity in the deaths of two Russian journalists can’t even get a quick verdict at the end of a trial that has lasted nine months. On March 22, the court found Savchenko guilty of all […]

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