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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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NATOSource

May 2, 2014

NATO Countries Planning Comms Mission in Ukraine

By Paul D. Shinkman, U.S. News & World Report

NATO countries may be ramping up their war of words in the coming weeks in Ukraine, where Russian propaganda flows freely into the east while ill-prepared security forces can’t even talk to one another.

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New Atlanticist

May 2, 2014

Despite Death Threats, Here is the News From Donetsk . . . .

By Irena Chalupa

Oleksiy Matsuka, 31 has been for a decade one of Donetsk’s most prominent journalists. In 2003, he founded Novosti Donbassa (Donbas News), a website to cover his home region. Matsuka soon built a reputation as a courageous investigative journalist, writing stories that most journalists in the Donbas (Donetsk Basin) region avoided. Last week, the Paris-based […]

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In the News

May 2, 2014

Hansen on Unrealistic Views of NATO

By Ian Hansen

Atlantic Council Program Assistant Ian Hansen writes for New Eastern Europe on why the belief that NATO expansion is partially culpable for Russian aggression is flawed:

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REUTERS/Baz Ratner

UkraineAlert

May 2, 2014

Why Slaviansk? Ukraine is Attacking the Command Center of Russian-Backed Militias

By James Rupert

Ukraine has launched its most serious counter-attack yet on Russian-backed separatist militias at Slaviansk, a relatively minor city in eastern Ukraine. Slaviansk, by all evidence, serves as the main command center for the armed groups that have seized towns in Donetsk and Luhansk provinces. The Ukrainian operation appears “well mounted with concern for the lives […]

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In the News

May 2, 2014

Pavel: Some Nations Feeling [Ukraine] Crisis More Deeply Than Others

By Barry Pavel

Bloomberg Businessweek quotes VP and Brent Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel on Eastern Europe’s request for NATO support to help solve the crisis in Ukraine and whether the organization should and is likely to increase its presence in the region:

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UkraineAlert

May 1, 2014

Ukrainian Singer Ruslana Moves a Washington Crowd

By James Rupert

Her Chances of Moving Policy or Preventing a War Are Less Clear While song and emotion come effortlessly for Ukrainian musician and pro-democracy activist Ruslana Lyzhychko, she says she’s nervous about speaking publicly in English, a language with which she struggles. But Wednesday night she delivered a meticulously practiced appeal for Ukraine to 900 of […]

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UkraineAlert

May 1, 2014

DIRECT TRANSLATION: Ukrainians’ Fears of Russian Violence Straddles Their Border

By Irena Chalupa

Why are Russia’s nearly 2 million Ukrainians silent? That is the question of Ukrainian educator Iryna Kluchkovska  asks in the mainstream daily broadsheet Den (The Day). Russia’s annexation of Crimea and sponsorship of violent uprisings in Ukraine’s east have mobilized Ukrainian communities to protest in New York, Sydney, Munich and elsewhere, she writes. But the […]

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In the News

May 1, 2014

Defense News: NATO to Urge Members to Boost Defense Spending

By Atlantic Council

Defense News cites the Atlantic Council for its annual Distinguished Leadership Awards dinner where  Air Force General Philip Breedlove, the NATO supreme allied commander, delivered remarks:

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In the News

May 1, 2014

Manning on Duality in the US-China Relationship

By Robert Manning

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Robert Manning joins CCTV to discuss the relationship between the United States and China and whether it is affected by events in Ukraine:

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In the News

May 1, 2014

EU Observer: Western Lenders Approve $17 Billion Ukraine Bailout

By Atlantic Council

The EU Observer cites the Atlantic Council for hosting European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at its two-day “Towards a Europe Whole and Free” conference:

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