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Experts from across the Atlantic Council are assessing the consequences of Russia’s February 2022 invasion, including what it means for Ukraine’s sovereignty, Europe’s security, and the United States’ leadership.

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Sweden Ends Its Hunt for a Foreign Submarine in its Waters

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Dec 4, 2024

A winning strategy to end Russia’s war against Ukraine

More than a dozen experts from the United States and Europe share their recommendations to the incoming Trump administration about how best to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.

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Sweden Ends Its Hunt for a Foreign Submarine in its Waters

Russia Tomorrow
Jan 8, 2025

Sanctioned kleptocracy: How Putin’s kremligarchs have survived the war—and even prospered

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Ilya Zaslavskiy

The latest report in the Atlantic Council’s Russia Tomorrow series explores how Russia’s kleptocratic networks infiltrated the West and measures the US and Europe can take to combat the malign influence of Russian kleptocracy around the globe.

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Sweden Ends Its Hunt for a Foreign Submarine in its Waters

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Jan 14, 2025

No peace without security: Ukraine needs guarantees against new Russian invasion

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Ukraine is ready to make territorial concessions but insists that any peace deal must include credible long-term security guarantees to prevent a new Russian invasion, writes Peter Dickinson.

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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.

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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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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 challenged much of the common Western understanding of Russia. How can the world better understand Russia? What are the steps forward for Western policy? The Eurasia Center’s new “Russia Tomorrow” series seeks to reevaluate conceptions of Russia today and better prepare for its future tomorrow.

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Russia Tomorrow: Five scenarios for Russia’s future

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A new Atlantic Council report explores five paths that Russia future might take in its future. What forces will shape Russia’s future?

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Oct 24, 2014

Sweden Ends Its Hunt for a Foreign Submarine in its Waters

By Liz Harper

Three Questions with Magnus Nordenman: NATO, Russia, Sweden, and Security in the Baltic As Sweden called off its week-long search today for a suspected foreign submarine in its territorial waters, the Atlantic Council’s Magnus Nordenman discussed the implications of the incident, in which public discussion suggested a Russian military intrusion. The incident comes amid recent […]

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Swedish corvette HMS Helsingborg

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Oct 24, 2014

Sweden Submarine Search Called Off

By BBC

The Swedish military has called off its week-long search for a suspected submarine in the sea south of Stockholm, officials say.

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UkraineAlert

Oct 24, 2014

George Soros on Ukraine: Europe Is Sleeping Through Its Decisive Fight

By New Atlanticist

Billionaire investment magnate and pro-democracy philanthropist George Soros has sounded what he says is a wake-up call to Europe (and to the United States) over a failure to see that it is “facing a challenge from Russia to its very existence.” You can read here his full 3,200-word essay for the New York Review of […]

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SACEUR Gen. Philip Breedlove and Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, October 24, 2014

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Oct 24, 2014

Russia Still Has Troops in Ukraine, NATO Says

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

Russia still has troops in eastern Ukraine and retains a very capable force on the border despite a partial withdrawal, NATO’s military commander said on Friday.

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Defense Industrialist

Oct 24, 2014

Robotic overwatch for the Baltic?

By James Hasik

  Unmanned surface vessels could supplement navies in peace and war.   General Sverker Göransson, the Swedish chief of defense, is rather upset that a presumably Russian submarine can waltz into, and then out of, the Stockholm archipelago unchallenged. Before we complain about the previous government’s paying-off the Navy’s sub-hunting CH-46 helicopters before securing their NH-90 replacements, we should […]

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UkraineAlert

Oct 24, 2014

A Night in War-Shattered Lugansk: Russian Soldiers Share Vodka with Western Journalists

By James Rupert

‘You Didn’t See Us Here,’ Officer Admonishes, as Moscow Keeps Military Options in Ukraine As Ukrainians elect a parliament this weekend, new evidence pops up of Russia’s military role in their country: Western journalists this week found destroyed Russian tanks in Donetsk—and very live (if somewhat drunk) Russian soldiers happy to socialize at one of […]

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Danish F-16 taking part in Baltic Air Policing, May 9, 2014

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Oct 23, 2014

NATO Flexes Muscles in Baltics Amid Russian Incursions

By Sam Jones, Financial Times

Shortly before 1pm local time on Tuesday, a Russian spy plane flew briefly into Estonian air space in what Nato officials see as the first serious violation of a Nato state’s aerial sovereignty since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Portuguese F-16s of Squadron 201

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Oct 22, 2014

Russian Spy Plane Violates NATO Air Space

By Sam Jones and Richard Milne, Financial Times

A Russian maritime spy plane flew into Estonian territory on Tuesday in the most serious violation of Nato airspace by Moscow since the end of the cold war.

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Canadian CF-18, August 20, 2012

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Oct 22, 2014

NATO Jets Intercept Russian Fighters Twice in Two Days Over Baltic

By Matti Huuhtanen, AP

NATO scrambled fighter jets – including two Canadian F-18s – twice in two days to intercept Russian military aircraft over the Baltic Sea, it said Tuesday amid reports that Russian military activity in the region is increasing.

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UA and Lithuanian troops in exercise Saber Strike, June 12, 2014

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Oct 21, 2014

Baltic Security: Tensions on the Frontier

By Richard Milne and Neil Buckley, Financial Times

“We cannot shut off our memories. We know from our past how aggressive Russia can be if there is no very clear and strict action from the west against this kind of aggression,” says Marko Mihkelson,

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