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A weapon is mounted on the Lehit ground robotic system, developed by specialists of the International Legion under the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, during a demonstration in Ukraine on December 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
Europe
Europe
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A European Union flag, with a hole cut in the middle, flies at half-mast outside a home on June 24, 2016 in Knutsford, United Kingdom. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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Vote Leave supporters wait for London Mayor Boris Johnson to address campaigners during a rally for the 'Vote Leave' campaign on April 15, 2016 in Manchester, England. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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Anti-government protesters destroy a statue of Russian communist revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin on December 8, 2013 in Kiev, Ukraine. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
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A Leave campaigner holds placards in Clacton-on-Sea, eastern England on June 21, 2016. (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images)
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A Vote to Leave campaigner holds a placard as Nigel Farage campaigns for votes to leave the European Union in the referendum on May 25, 2016 in Bolton, England. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin during peace talks over Eastern Ukraine on February 11, 2015 in Minsk, Belarus. (Dmitry Azarov/Kommersant Photo via Getty Images)
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Experts
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Tomáš Pojar
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center on Europe and Eurasia
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
