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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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Protest in Prague, July 14, 2014

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Jul 23, 2014

Putin’s Crime, Europe’s Cowardice

By Bernard-Henri Lévy, New York Times

Faced with this new Lockerbie, will we in the West do no more than beg Mr. Putin to provide “free and complete” access to the crash site and offer “full cooperation” in the recovery of remains?

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, May 8, 2014

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Jul 23, 2014

President of Poland Calls for Strengthening NATO’s Eastern Flank

By Office of the President of Poland

The Ukrainian-Russian conflict is the biggest challenge for European security since the time of the Cold War, according to President Bronislaw Komorowski. The Polish president is in favour of strengthening NATO’s eastern flank.

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In the News

Jul 23, 2014

Brzezinski: The West’s Response to MH17 Is Mostly “Rhetorical”

By Ian Brzezinski

CNBC quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Ian Brzezinski on the international response to the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17:

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French President François Hollande and President Barack Obama, Feb. 11, 2014

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Jul 23, 2014

Members of Congress Urge Obama to Make Personal Appeal to Stop Mistral Sale to Russia

By Mark R. Warner, Mark Kirk, Adam Kinzinger, and William R. Keating

Text of letter to President Barack Obama from US lawmakers.

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and President Barack Obama, March 6, 2014

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Jul 23, 2014

Special Summit Series: The United States and NATO

By James Joyner

In the run-up to September’s NATO summit in Wales, the Obama administration is sending decidedly mixed signals to its European allies, simultaneously demanding that they contribute more to their own security and signaling that they needn’t bother.

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In the News

Jul 23, 2014

Wilson on Regional Implications of Downed MH17

By Damon Wilson

Atlantic Council Executive Vice President Damon Wilson joins MSNBC’s The Cycle to discuss the two Ukrainian military planes that were shot down nearly sixteen miles away from the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17: Watch the full interview here.

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PHOTO:OSCE/Evgeniy Maloletka

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Jul 23, 2014

Protecting Ukraine Means Supplementing the OSCE

By James Rupert

International Diplomacy on the Russia-Ukraine War Has Been Dominated by Moscow As the international community works both to calm the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in southeast Ukraine and to assure a credible investigation of the Malaysian Airlines disaster there, the main body in that effort is the Organization for Security and Cooperation and Europe. But the OSCE […]

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French snipers, February 16, 2012

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Jul 22, 2014

Shouldn’t Europe Pay More for its Own Defense?

By Graham Allison, Los Angeles Times

Two decades after the end of the Cold War, the twin trends of overdependence on U.S. power and underinvestment in military might have left European defenses at risk of becoming dangerously irrelevant.

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In the News

Jul 22, 2014

Karatnycky on New EU Sanctions

By Adrian Karatnycky

USA Today quotes Transatlantic Relations Program Nonresident Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky on new sanctions imposed against Russia by the European Union:

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In the News

Jul 22, 2014

Chalupa on the Pro-Russian Separatist Leader of Donetsk

By Irene Chalupa

The Washington Post quotes Atlantic Council Writer/Editor Irene Chalupa on Alexander Borodai, the self-proclaimed prime minister of the pro-Russian separatist Donetsk People’s Republic:

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