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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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Sep 1, 2014

Brattberg on Russia’s Call for Ceasefire in Ukraine

By Erik Brattberg

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Fellow Erik Brattberg joins CTV to discuss Russian interference in Ukraine ahead of the NATO Summit: Watch the full interview here.

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In the News

Sep 1, 2014

Bryza: Call Putin’s Bluff- He Will Not Cut Off Europe’s Gas

By Matthew Bryza

Eurasia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Matthew Bryza writes for the Financial Times on how Europe can survive this year’s winter without importing more Russian energy:

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SACEUR Gen. Philip Breedlove and Spanish Defense Minister Pedro Morenés, July 2, 2014

NATOSource

Sep 1, 2014

Special Summit Series: Spain, Portugal, and NATO

By Jorge Benitez

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen described the Russia/Ukraine crisis as “the gravest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War.”

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In the News

Aug 30, 2014

Karatnycky on Russian Aggression in Ukraine

By Adrian Karatnycky

Transatlantic Relations Program Nonresident Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky joins MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show to discuss rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine ahead of the NATO Summit in Wales:

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New Atlanticist

Aug 29, 2014

Ambassador Matthew Bryza on President Obama’s Estonia Visit

By New Atlanticist

Ahead of the NATO Summit next week, President Barack Obama will visit Estonia to reassure Baltic allies of US support amid Russian aggression in Ukraine. In Tallinn, President Obama is to meet the presidents of all three Baltic states: Estonia’s Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Latvia’s Andris Berzins, and Lithuania’s Dalia Grybauskaite.

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, March 5, 2014

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Aug 29, 2014

NATO Urges Russia to Stop Its ‘Illegal Military Actions’ in Ukraine

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

We have just held an extraordinary meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission, following the serious escalation of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine. The meeting was held at Ukraine’s request.

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In the News

Aug 29, 2014

Brattberg and Volker: NATO Must Stand Up to Putin’s Threat to Invade Ukraine

By Erik Brattberg, Kurt Volker

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Adviser Kurt Volker and Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Fellow Erik Brattberg cowrite for the Washington Post on what NATO must do to prove to President Putin that Russia cannot invade Ukraine one week prior to a NATO summit:

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In the News

Aug 28, 2014

Benitez: Put an End to Putin’s Aggression

By Jorge Benitez

NATOSource Director and Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Jorge Benitez writes for US News and World Report on why the West should become militarily involved in the crisis in Ukraine:

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UkraineAlert

Aug 28, 2014

DIRECT TRANSLATION: Russian Tycoon “Will No Longer Be Silent” on Ukraine War

By Irena Chalupa

Mikhail Khodorkovsky Calls for General Strike in Russia to Protest Invasion The Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former chairman of Yukos, once Russia’s biggest oil company, is speaking out against the toll that the Kremlin’s undeclared war on Ukraine is taking on Russians. Khodorkovsky, a Putin foe who spent nearly ten years in prison on politically […]

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UkraineAlert

Aug 28, 2014

Russia Secretively Buries its Soldiers Killed in the Ukraine War

By Irena Chalupa

Russian military officials stood at a cemetery surrounded by forest in far northwestern Russia, early Tuesday morning, and carefully vetted the army officers, soldiers and family members arriving for a funeral to be held in secrecy. Two paratroopers from Russia’s 76th Airborne Division were to be buried. They died last week – no one would […]

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