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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

Oct 26, 2016

More Proof Ukraine is Changing: Opaque Defense Sector Embraces Reform

By Oksana Bedratenko

In December 2015, the anticorruption watchdog Transparency International warned that Ukraine’s defense sector faces “a high risk of corruption.” TI named the country’s opaque procurement process as the highest-risk area for corruption. Assessing the defense spheres of NATO members and partner states, TI gave Ukraine a D on an A to F scale, primarily for […]

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In the News

Oct 26, 2016

Czuperski Quoted by Daily Mail on the Seriousness of Russian Hacking

By Maksymilian Czuperski

Read the full article here.

Russia

In the News

Oct 26, 2016

Defense One features Atlantic Council’s DFRLab on hackers

By Atlantic Council

Defense One featured the DFRLab's extensive reporting on emails from the #SurkovLeaks from top Russian officials and their level of authenticity.

Disinformation English

In the News

Oct 26, 2016

Bloomberg features Atlantic Council’s DFRLab on Russian hackers

By Atlantic Council

Bloomberg cites the DFRLab's recent article that analyzes the authenticity of leaked emails from top Russian government officials.

Disinformation English

In the News

Oct 26, 2016

Nimmo Quoted by Reuters on Russian Forces in Baltic Region

By Ben Nimmo

Read the full article here.

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UkraineAlert

Oct 26, 2016

Don’t Expect Quick Resolution to Europe’s Only Active War

By Vera Zimmerman

The most disputed point about the Minsk agreements has been whether to hold local elections in the Donbas before Ukraine regains control of its border with Russia, or after. Ukraine has insisted that security and the return of the border should precede elections, while pro-Russian separatists and Moscow have been pushing for the opposite, as […]

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New Atlanticist

Oct 25, 2016

Trouble with the Philippines

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Tensions between the United States and the Philippines—a former US colony with which Washington has had a mutual defense treaty since 1951—have put a question mark over the future of the relationship and are being watched warily by countries in the Asia-Pacific. Noting that the US-Philippines treaty alliance has been a “foundation for stability and […]

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Russia's ZAPAD military exercise, Sept. 26, 2013

NATOSource

Oct 25, 2016

The NATO-Russia Exercise Gap… Then, Now, & 2017

By Ian Brzezinski and Nicholas Varangis

Military exercises are a critical means of testing, refining and demonstrating readiness for combat operations. In February 2015, we published a chart comparing the magnitudes of military exercises conducted by NATO and Russia.

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In the News

Oct 25, 2016

Cohen in Fox News: The Breathtaking Russian Problem That Awaits Our Next President

By Ariel Cohen

Read the full article here.

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New Atlanticist

Oct 24, 2016

With Pipeline, Russia Sustains Dominance of Turkish Gas Market

By John M. Roberts

Russia’s decision to go ahead with Turkish Stream, an offshore pipeline that will bring Russian gas to Turkey, cements its dominance of the Turkish gas market. In political terms, the revival of Turkish Stream—or TurkStream as Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned energy company, now terms the project—epitomizes the entente developing between Moscow and Ankara, a relationship that […]

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