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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)
Russia
Russia
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Chris DeMuth speaking at the National Conservatism Conference in Washington D.C. July 14-19, 2019. (National Conservatism Conference)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a press conference on November 15, 2018, in Singapore. (Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers sit on a armored military vehicle in the city of Severodonetsk, Donbas region, on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)
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Smoke billows out from a damaged fuel depot in Odesa hours after a Russian missile strike on April 3. (James Barnett)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gives a virtual address on the 22nd day of the Russia-Ukraine war in Kyiv, Ukraine on March 17, 2022. (Getty Images)
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A territorial defense member signals to cars passing a checkpoint on April 3, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo by Alexey Furman/Getty Images)
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A Ukranian serviceman walks between rubble of the destroyed regional headquarters of Kharkiv on March 27, 2022. (Photo by Aris Messinis / AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian serviceman as seen on March 31, 2022 in Stoyanka, Ukraine. (Photo by Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images)
Experts
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
