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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

Sep 28, 2016

Hof Quoted by Agence France-Presse on the US-Russia Relationship

By Frederic C. Hof

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New Atlanticist

Sep 27, 2016

Vilify and Amplify: How the Kremlin’s Disinformation Machine is Attacking the MH17 Probe

By Ben Nimmo

The Kremlin has turned its disinformation machine on those who are investigating the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine in July of 2014, using state employees, state-run media, and the state-run, though unacknowledged, “troll factory” of fake Internet accounts. The primary goal of the media attacks has been to undermine the credibility of […]

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In the News

Sep 27, 2016

Herbst Quoted by Rudaw on Assessing the Russian Intervention in Syria

By John E. Herbst

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New Atlanticist

Sep 26, 2016

The Presidential Debates: Here’s What We Would Like to Know

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her Republican challenger, Donald Trump, took part in their first presidential debate in New York on September 26. The debate was the first of three. Here are some questions the Atlantic Council’s experts would like to pose to the candidates.

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UkraineAlert

Sep 26, 2016

The Audacity of Nadiya Savchenko

By Melinda Haring

“Russian propaganda made the mistake of using me as an example, and I just became too expensive for them. I am a person who never gives up,” said Nadiya Savchenko, a former prisoner of war, current member of Ukraine’s parliament, and one of the country’s most popular politicians, on September 22. Three days earlier, the […]

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UkraineAlert

Sep 26, 2016

Can Vladimir Putin Make the Twenty-First Century a Russian Century?

By Anders Åslund

The role Russia is playing in Donald Trump’s election campaign is quite extraordinary. The candidate’s son has acknowledged that Trump’s companies have received large Russian investments. His former campaign manager Paul Manafort worked for Ukraine’s disgraced pro-Moscow authoritarian president for almost a decade. Two of his foreign policy advisers, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and Carter […]

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In the News

Sep 26, 2016

Ullman in United Press International: What Accounts for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Popularity?

By Harlan Ullman

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In the News

Sep 26, 2016

Braw Joins Monocle 24 to Discuss Sweden Putting a Military Unit on Gotland

By Elizabeth Braw

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In the News

Sep 25, 2016

Itani Quoted by The Arab Weekly on US and Russia’s Efforts to Salvage Syrian Ceasefire

By Faysal Itani

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In the News

Sep 25, 2016

Grigas Quoted By Newsweek on his new book, ” Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire”

By Agnia Grigas

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