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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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Chinese S-300 launcher

NATOSource

Sep 26, 2013

Turkey Selects Chinese Missile Defense System Over US & European Options

By Anadolu Agency

Ankara has granted a long-awaited tender for long-range missile and air defense systems to Chinese contenders

China France
The NATO-Russia Council discussed Syria on Sept. 17, 2013

NATOSource

Sep 20, 2013

Russian Ambassador: Some NATO Countries Ready to Assist Eliminating Chemical Weapons in Syria

By Alexander Grushko, Russian Embassy to the UK

Excerpt from ITAR-TASS interview with Alexander Grushko, Russia’s Permanent Representative to NATO.

NATO Russia
Zapad 2009 military exercise

NATOSource

Sep 20, 2013

Russia and Belarus Launch Strategic Military Exercise Zapad 2013

By ITAR-TASS and RIA Novosti

From ITAR-TASS:  The Zapad 2013 (West 2013) joint strategic exercise of the armed forces of Russia and Belarus will be launched in the two countries on Friday

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Symbol of Russia's Federal Security Service

NATOSource

Sep 20, 2013

Hundreds of Russians Fighting as Mercenaries in Syria – FSB

By RIA Novosti

Some 300 to 400 Russians are fighting in the Syrian civil war as soldiers of fortune, a senior official in Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) told reporters on Friday.

Russia Syria
Swearing-in Ceremony for Victoria Nuland, Sept. 18, 2013

NATOSource

Sep 19, 2013

Top US Diplomat for Europe Calls for a “Transatlantic Renaissance”

By John Kerry and Victoria Nuland, Department of State

Secretary of State John Kerry: [I]n Brussels, Toria helped guide NATO through a very critical and uncertain time when Article 5 was invoked in September of 2001

Economy & Business Europe & Eurasia

New Atlanticist

Sep 18, 2013

The Syrian Sisyphus

By Harlan Ullman

The framework for elimination of Syrian chemical weapons agreed to last week by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov could, and could is the operative word, potentially become the most stunning geostrategic event in global security since Richard Nixon’s outreach to China and the demise of the Soviet Union. […]

Russia Syria

New Atlanticist

Sep 18, 2013

European Values, not Geopolitics, Should Decide Ukraine’s European Integration

By Taras Kuzio

The European Parliament on September 12 called on Russia to respect the right of EU Eastern Partnership members such as Ukraine to enter Association Agreements and not use trade sanctions, forcing them to choose the Eurasian over the European Union. The trade war is music to the ears of the authoritarian Ukrainian authorities who have […]

Eastern Europe European Union
NATO Russia Council meeting, April 2012

NATOSource

Sep 18, 2013

NATO-Russia Council Supports UN Action in the Event of Syrian Non-Compliance

By NATO

Statement by the Chairman of the NATO-Russia Council on US-Russia framework for the elimination of Syrian chemical weapons.

International Organizations NATO
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Oct. 9, 2012

NATOSource

Sep 16, 2013

NATO Secretary General Welcomes US/Russia Agreement on Syria’s Chemical Arsenal

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Statement by the NATO Secretary General on the framework for elimination of Syrian chemical weapons.

NATO Russia
President of Russia Vladimir Putin

NATOSource

Sep 12, 2013

A Plea for Caution From Russia

By Vladimir Putin, New York Times

No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage.

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