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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Europe
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The Memorial to the Heroes of WW1 in the Victory Park on May 9, 2015 in Moscow, Russia. (Alexander Aksakov/Getty Images)
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Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon candidate of the party 'Les Republicains' at the Exhibition Park of the Porte de Versailles on November 25, 2016 in Paris, France. (Frederic Stevens/Getty Images)
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Police stand at the area after a lorry truck ploughed through a Christmas market on December 19, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends an awards ceremony in the Kremlin on December 22, 2014 in Moscow, Russia. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
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Flowers are placed in front of a portrait of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov in the Foreign Ministry in Moscow on December 20, 2016, a day after his assassination in the Turkish capital. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Indian PM Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet on the sidelines of SCO Summit in Tashkent, June 24, 2016. (Narendra Modi/Flickr)
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US President Barack Obama (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G8 summit at the Lough Erne resort near Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, on June 17, 2013. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
