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A man walks near the headquarters of the Russian Central Bank in Moscow on February 13, 2026. (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)
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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
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
