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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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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

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Aug 26, 2013

Syria: Russia Dooms Hopes of UN Security Council Resolution

By Raf Sanchez and Roland Oliphant, Telegraph

As the US, Britain and France edged closer to approving strikes in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons, the Kremlin said that the West was moving down “a very dangerous path.”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin

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Aug 22, 2013

Russian Military Creating Cyber Warfare Branch

By RIA Novosti

A separate branch dedicated to cyber warfare is being created in the Russian Armed Forces as the Internet could become a new “theater of war” in the near future, a senior Russian military R&D official said.

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Aug 21, 2013

No No-Fly Zone over Syria

By Paul Rasmussen

Last week’s meeting between General Dempsey and King Abdullah II of Jordan was noteworthy in that the subject of military intervention in Syria was not discussed.  After two years of endless strategic and political debate it seems that recent events have put an end to the suggestion that the United States should intervene in Syria.  […]

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"NATO has an obligation to provide Georgia with a concrete pathway into the Alliance"

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Aug 19, 2013

Yes, NATO Should Let Georgia In

By Michael Cecire, National Interest

Categorical critics of NATO like [Doug] Bandow accuse the organization of being without a mission since the Soviet Union’s disintegration, but somehow fail to recognize that the Cold War success of NATO was as much sociopolitical as it was military.

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Coat of arms of Eurocorps

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Aug 19, 2013

Europe: Strategic Drifter

By Jakub Grygiel, National Interest

The European Union is a strategic drifter, unclear about its world role, unable to articulate a purpose and divided in its perception of external threats.

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"Partnership with NATO can be seen as a successful hedging strategy"

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Aug 16, 2013

NATO’s ‘Neutral’ European Partners: Valuable Contributors or Free Riders?

By Stanley Sloan

When the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact collapsed, five European states – Austria, Sweden, Finland, Ireland and Switzerland – decided, each for their own reasons, to remain “neutral.”

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Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov

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Aug 16, 2013

NATO Pullout From Afghanistan ‘Too Hasty’ – Russian Defense Official

By RIA Novosti

ISAF “has been too hasty about making the final decision to pull out in 2014,” Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said, adding that Afghan “domestic security forces capable of countering radical elements have not yet been created.”

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Estonia "will have to be well integrated and rehearsed to interact with NATO"

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Aug 13, 2013

Russia-Georgia War: Lessons for Estonia

By Mart Laar, Postimees

Within days, five years will have passed from the Russian-Georgian war. Much is written about it, a movie has been made. Still, many a question remains unanswered.

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Aug 13, 2013

Estonia: Russian Spy did not Know EU or NATO Secrets

By Andrew Reitman, EUobserver

An alleged Russian spy exposed in Estonia did not compromise EU or Nato secrets, Estonia’s intelligence chief has told EUobserver.

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Aug 13, 2013

Estonian Intelligence Official Confesses to Spying for Russia

By Estonian Public Broadcasting

The Estonian Internal Security Service (KaPo) has detained one of its own former officials, Vladimir Veitman, whom the agency suspects of having gathered classified information for years on behalf of a Russian intelligence service.

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