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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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Vice President JD Vance speaking with President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the US embassy in Paris on February 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky listens during a press conference with President Donald Trump on December 28, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Pope Leo XIV inside the Church of Our Lady of Muxima on April 19, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky attends a joint press conference with the German chancellor at the Chancellery in Berlin on April 14, 2026. (Getty Images)
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The Hercegovina Bridge along the Pocitelj-Zvirovici subsection of the pan-European Corridor Vc highway, in September. 4, 2024, in Capljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Getty Images)
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Ukrainian paratroopers boarding a Mil Mi-8 helicopter on March 27, 2026, in Ukraine. (Getty Images)
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Viktor Orbán speaks to the media after he cast his ballot in the Hungarian parliamentary elections on April 12, 2026, in Budapest, Hungary. (Getty Images)
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A soldier from the unmanned aerial vehicle unit holding a “Marsianin” attack drone on April 7, 2026, in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Getty Images)
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Wreckage is seen from what Iranian authorities say is a US military helicopter on April 5, 2026, in an unspecified location in Iran. (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)
