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Black smoke rises from the area of Gazprom Neft’s Moscow oil refinery on the southeastern outskirts of Moscow on June 18, 2026. (Getty Images)
Alexander Aibel is a research associate at Hudson Institute.
Alexander Aibel is a research associate at Hudson Institute, working with Senior Fellow Thomas J. Duesterberg. He graduated from Columbia University with a BA in East Asian studies, focusing on Chinese.