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Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on April 10, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Vladimir Putin walks prior to his inauguration ceremony in Moscow on May 7, 2024. (Sergei Bobylyov/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russia's President Putin and Burkina Faso's interim military president Traoré can be seen together on a poster with the slogan "Support for the transition" in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on March 5, 2024. (Christina Peters/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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Giant Pandas Qing Bao and Bao Li arrive in Dulles, Virginia, on October 15, 2024. (Craig Hudson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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The presidents of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates attend the narrow format meeting of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on October 23, 2024. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Education Minister Sergey Kravtsov on October 21 2024, in Razdory, Russia. (Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian anti-aircraft squadron guards the skies along the front lines in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on October 19, 2024. (Fermin Torrano/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomes US President Joe Biden at Schloss Bellevue on October 18, 2024, in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup via Getty Images)
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Soldiers take part in the combat shooting exercises of the Lithuanian army and the French-German brigade in Pabrade, Lithuania, on May 6, 2024. (Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images)
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Former President Donald Trump walks off stage at the end of a campaign rally on October 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker via Getty Images)
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A serviceman of a mobile fire group of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine is on a mission in Odesa region, Ukraine, on October 10, 2024. (Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Tsiporah Fried
Visiting Senior Fellow
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
