The Evening: NATO Stalemate, Prigozhin in Russia, Lucinda, and More

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Good Evening,

It's Thursday, July 6th.

Note: The Evening will be “gone fishin’” until Monday, July 17. Stay Cool!

Turkey Sweden Stalemate

Sweden and Turkey made some progress in talks aimed at overcoming President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s objections to the Nordic country joining NATO, but gaps still remain in their positions and their leaders will meet next week to discuss them, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday, as the AP reports

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Prigozhin in Russia

Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is back in Russia after a short-lived revolt and brief exile in neighboring Belarus, that country’s president said, as the WSJ reports

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Zelensky Vows Strong Retaliation

Ukraine’s president has vowed to retaliate after a Russian missile attack on Lviv killed at least four people, destroyed apartment buildings and shattered the relative calm in the western city that sits near the EU border, as the FT reports

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In That Number

12

Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeniy Prigozhin has returned to Russia only 12 days after staging an uprising against the Russian military, according to Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko.

Source: The Washington Post

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Critical Quote

“As far as Prigozhin, he is in St. Petersburg.”

—Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian President

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Optics

(Photo credit: Stanislav Ivanov/Getty Images.) Cars lie wrecked or heavily damaged next to a four-story residential building that was struck by a missile attack on July 6, 2023, in Lviv, Ukraine.

Recommended Reading

"Repel, Don’t Expel: Strengthening NATO’s Defense and Deterrence in the Baltic States

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" by CSIS's Mark Cancian and Sean Monaghan.

This Town Next Week

On Wednesday, at 10:00 a.m.

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, the CSIS Global Food Security Program holds a conversation with UN IFAD President Alvaro Lario on the fight against global food insecurity.

Video

Today, the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia program discussed the European Union's enlargement policy and the prospect of Ukraine's accession. Watch the full video here.

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CSIS’s Max Bergmann joins the podcast to discuss European nations’ decision-making processes on strengthening their individual and collective defense in response to Russian aggression and the lurking shadow of China.

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Smiles

In celebration of Lucinda Williams’ new record, “Stories From a Rock n Roll Heart,” and her recent bestselling memoir, “Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You,” I want to take a look back at one of her classic performances

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