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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
Europe
Europe
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A Ukrainian soldier with an anti aircraft missile system near Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine on May 11, 2022. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images)
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Leaders representing Russia, Pakistan, China, Uzbekistan, Iran, and Kyrgyzstan attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Council of Heads of State in Bishek in 2019. (Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images)
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Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev greets Russian President Vladimir Putin during their bilaterlal meeting at the Russian-Kazakh Regional Forum on November 7, 2019 in Omsk, Russia. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
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A RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile vehicle during the rehearsals for the Victory Day Military Parade, on April 18, 2022 in Alabino, outside of Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin looks on during talks with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on April 12, 2022. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
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
