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Shavkat Mirziyoyev meets with Ebrahim Raisi within the 22nd meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization leaders' summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on September 16, 2022. (Iranian Presidency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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The NATO and Lithuanian flags fly in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 9, 2023. (Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers an important speech during his inspection of the headquarters of the People's Liberation Army PLA Eastern Theater Command on July 6, 2023. (Li Gang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers use an armored engineer vehicle based on a Leopard tank chassis to pull their comrades car from a ditch on May 11, 2023. (Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a reception following their talks at the Kremlin on March 21, 2023. (Photo by Pavel Byrkin / SPUTNIK / AFP)
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Li Qiang attends a meeting at the Great Hall of the People on June 28, 2023, in Beijing, China. (Jade Gao via Getty Images)
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A man holding a flag with the Wagner group logo in Rostov-on-Don on June 24, 2023. (Roman Romokhov/AFP via Getty Images)
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