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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
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Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin during peace talks over Eastern Ukraine on February 11, 2015 in Minsk, Belarus. (Dmitry Azarov/Kommersant Photo via Getty Images)
Commentary
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Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko (L) joins Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko at the Presidential Administration building following Savchenko's return to Ukraine on May 25, 2016 in Kiev, Ukraine. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
Commentary
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Military Parade on the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2016. (The Presidential Press and Information Office/www.kremlin.ru)
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Turkeys Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a rally for the 10th anniversary of the Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD) at Albert-Schultz-Hall in Vienna, Austria on June 19, 2014. (Kayhan Ozer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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A woman looking for some of her belongings is seen trough the hole in the wall of destroyed apartment building in Pechatniki district of Moscow, September 9, 1999. (ALEXANDER MEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russian BMD-4M Sadovnitsa infantry fighting vehicles roll at Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2016. (VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP/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
