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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow late on April 29, 2026. (Getty Images)
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T-72B3 tanks of the Russian Southern Military District's 150th Rifle Division take part in a military exercise at Kadamovsky Range. (Photo by Erik Romanenko\TASS via Getty Images)
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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi delivers a speech in the Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in downtown Tehran on January 3, 2022. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Azerbaijan flag waving in center of the city on November 28, 2020 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Aziz Karimov/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with U.S. President Joe Biden during their meeting in Geneva on June 16, 2021. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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Chinese soldiers during the rehearsal of the military parade to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Photo by the Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
