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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
Russia
Russia
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow on February 26, 2014. (MIKHAIL METZEL/AFP/Getty Images)
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Greenpeace activists wave placards saying 'No fracking' and block the entrance of Chevron's shale gas exploring site in Pungesti village on July 7, 2014. (DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (C) Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon (R) and Armenia's President Serzh Sarkisian of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) at the Kremlin in Moscow, on May 8, 2014. (SERGEI KARPUKHIN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his visit to the Crimean port of Sevastopol on May 9, 2014. (YURI KADOBNOV/AFP/Getty Images)
Commentary
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Russian gas giant Gazprom's logo is attached on the roof of the recently built Adler thermal power plant in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi on November 30, 2013.(YURI KADOBNOV/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the Vostok Battalion, a pro-Russia militia, stand guard in an intersection on May 20, 2014 in Donetsk, Ukraine. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)
Experts
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
