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November 30, 2011 | Could a Eurasian Union be a Western Ally?

Stanislav Maselnik: Putin’s Eurasian Union is a sound initiative of regional integration and need not present competition to the EU and its allies. In contrast, it can serve EU and US interests by bringing a stabilizing force to the region and creating a strong ally to balance against the rising power of China.

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July 15, 2008 | Ukraine's Western Integration: A Slow Process

Memo 7: The members of the Atlantic Community believe that Ukraine belongs to Europe. Ukraine needs to be integrated into Western alliances without undermining Western-Russian relations.

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May 30, 2007 | Merkel's Russian Moment is Now

Bastian Giegerich and Raffaello Pantucci: We press Angela Merkel to push through the recent gridlock in EU-Russia relations. Merkel should use the end of her EU presidency to adopt a unified and robust stance towards Russia, one more in line with the concerns of former Soviet satellites who now represent the EU’s eastern borders.

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September 23, 2009 | Europe Must Stand up for Georgia

On the anniversary of the fall of the iron curtain a group of academics advocate that Europe must show stronger support for Georgia. ++ As the EU prepares to release its report on the causes of the war in Georgia we must remember the lessons of a painful past. ++ “The EU was built against […] the iron curtain [so] it would be utterly disastrous if we were to appear […] to condone

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January 21, 2009 | Yushchenko Must Use Gas Deal for Ukrainian Unity

The two-week gas war between Ukraine and Russia was only partly about money. ++ Russia wanted to split the Ukrainian leadership, where support for leader President Yushchenko has fallen to 5%. ++ PM Tymoshenko has also been weakened, as she faces responsibility for the financial downturn. ++ President Putin miscalculated: Russian pressure has unified pro-western Ukrainians, as the EU refused to

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November 12, 2008 | "An End to the Russian Chill"

In 2003 the EU created a “security strategy;” the first draft didn’t even mention Russia. ++ For better or worse, it’s time to revise that plan. ++ The one good side effect from the war with Georgia is that it allowed Merkel and Sarkozy, “the only EU leaders with the independence of mind to declare that European and US strategic interests often diverge,” the

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