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Iranian workers walk past a destroyed residential building due to Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran, on June 13, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl via Getty Images)
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Then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C), Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller (R) and former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (L) at the gas compressor station 'Portovaya' outside Vyborg, September 6, 2011. (ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
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President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd R) and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (R) at Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey on March 9, 2016. (Ahmet Izgi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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HMAS Rankin in the Eastern Australian Exercise Area, March 2, 2016. (Royal Australian Navy/Released)
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A detail of a twenty Pound bank note with hologram design and a five and ten Euro note, on March 7, 2016 in London, England. (Jim Dyson/Getty Images)
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Actor Tim Pigott-Smith during Broadway Opening Night of 'King Charles III' at the Music Box Theatre on November 1, 2015 in New York City. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
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The flag of the European Union flies from the European Parliament information office in the European Quarter on February 25, 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. (Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on November 9, 2014 in Beijing, China. (How Hwee Young - Pool/Getty Images)
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Syrian opposition members inspect the site of a suspected chlorine gas attack by Assad regime forces in Jobar region of Damascus, Syria on November 13, 2014. (Lokman Sair/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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US Secretary of States John Kerry (R) beside of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) after the International Syria Support Group (ISSG) meeting in Munich on February 12, 2016. (CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 15, 2015. (SERGEI KARPUKHIN/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
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
