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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
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Corruption
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Soldiers from Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and US participate in the opening ceremony for the international exercise "Saber Strike”, Adazi Training Area, Latvia, June 8, 2015.(Gatis Diezins, RYC/Flickr)
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The body of killed Russian opposition leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, covered by plastic, seen on Bolshoi Moskvoretsky bridge near St. Basil cathedral, Moscow, Russia, February 28, 2015. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Firefighters and Ministry of Emergency Situations Officers watch ruins of an eight-story apartment building destroyed by a bomb explosion in Moscow, September 13, 1999. (Maxim Marmur/Getty Images)
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Russian rubles (Josef F. Stuefer/Getty Images)
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Experts
Marshall Billingslea
Senior Fellow
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
