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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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Apr 20, 2014

Pavel: Europe and US Must Be “Unified and Coordinated” in Russia Strategy

By Barry Pavel

Deutsche Welle interviews VP and Brent Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel on whether the United States should provide defense weapons to Ukraine: 

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In the News

Apr 20, 2014

Brattberg: Is There a US Pivot To Europe?

By Erik Brattberg

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Fellow Erik Brattberg writes for the National Interest on what the crisis in Ukraine might mean for NATO and for US interests in Europe: 

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In the News

Apr 19, 2014

Volker on Russia’s Support of Separatists in Ukraine

By Kurt Volker

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Adviser Kurt Volker joins CNN’s New Day to discuss how Russia is fomenting political unrest in Ukraine through support of separatist groups:

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In the News

Apr 19, 2014

Nurick on US Policy Towards Russia

By Robert Nurick

The New York Times quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Robert Nurick on what an updated United States foreign policy strategy regarding Russia may look like: 

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, April 17, 2014

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Apr 18, 2014

NATO: ‘Fly-on-the-Wall’ Film Behind Vladimir Putin’s Rasmussen Jab

By Naftali Bendavid and Ellen Emmerentze, Wall Street Journal

A North Atlantic Treaty Organization spokeswoman blamed a “fly-on-the-wall documentary” as the source of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen was using a Dictaphone while he was Danish prime minister to secretly record a meeting.

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Unidentified gunmen at Simferopol Airport, Feb. 28, 2014

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Apr 18, 2014

Putin’s Way of War and NATO’s Article Five

By Janine Davidson, Council on Foreign Relations

NATO countries have been reluctant to provide support to Ukraine’s military, who is not a member of the transatlantic alliance and therefore not entitled to a collective defensive response under NATO’s Article Five.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, April 17, 2014

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Apr 18, 2014

Stop Blaming NATO for Putin’s Provocations

By James Goldgeier, New Republic

The principal problem with the argument against NATO enlargement is that it never offers an alternative beyond leaving Europe frozen in time in 1989.

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An armed man in Slaviansk, Ukraine April 16, 2014

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Apr 18, 2014

NATO Military Commander: Evidence Proves Russian Forces Already in Ukraine

By Philip M. Breedlove, Allied Command Operations

It’s hard to fathom that groups of armed men in masks suddenly sprang forward from the population in eastern Ukraine and systematically began to occupy government facilities. It’s hard to fathom because it’s simply not true.

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In the News

Apr 17, 2014

Karatnycky on Russian Funding of Separatist Groups

By Adrian Karatnycky

Voice of America quotes Transatlantic Relations Program Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky on Ukraine’s announcement that Russian banks are funding separatist groups in eastern Ukraine: 

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Apr 17, 2014

Amid Chaos, a Humiliating and Dangerous Defeat for Ukraine

By Irena Chalupa

In Russia’s takeover of southeast Ukraine – which President Vladimir Putin is characterizing as a recovery of old Russian provinces lost in the 1920s – this week’s ineffectiveness and weakness of Ukraine’s government and armed forces are visible almost everywhere.

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