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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)
Russia
Russia
In the Media
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A woman and child run through the smoke after an air-strike staged by Syrian regime forces in Duma district, Damascus, Syria on September 28, 2015. (Mohammed Khair/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and Russian President Valdimir Putin during the 70th annual UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters, September 28, 2015. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Mikhail Nesterov's portrait of Ivan Ilyin, 1921. (Russian Museum, St. Petersburg)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Center-2015 Military Drills at Donguzsky Range in Orenburg, Russia, September 19, 2015. (Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)
Experts
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
