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Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters China’s Path Forward Is Getting Bumpy
The Khorgos Gateway was once touted as one of the most ambitious projects in the Belt and Road Initiative, but it has come to represent the limits of Beijing’s global push.
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Mariya Gordeyeva / Reuters ‘Our Government Doesn’t Want to Spoil Relations with China’
The arrest of a Kazakh activist who advocated for Muslims ensnared in Beijing’s camps is part of a wider effort by China to shape the narrative on its internment system.
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Shamil Zhumatov / Reuters An Aging Autocrat’s Lesson for His Fellow Dictators
Kazakhstan’s longtime leader ceded power to a self-appointed successor, who is all but certain to win this week’s election.
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Ints Kalnins / Reuters Meet Sweden’s New Populist Kingmakers
The right-wing Sweden Democrats didn’t fare as well as expected in Sunday’s elections. But they’re still in a position to shape the country’s stance on immigration.
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Lehtikuva Lehtikuva / Reuters What It Was Like to Attend That Trump-Putin Press Conference
Helsinki set the global stage for diplomatic theater, but Putin ran the show.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters They Don’t Make Helsinki Summits Like They Used To
The Finns are once again preparing to host Russian and American leaders—but the context is very different this time.
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STF / AFP / Getty The Meaning of a U.S.-Russia Summit in Helsinki
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet in the capital of Finland, a place with a long history as a site of pivotal encounters between their countries.
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Pavel Golovkin / AP How a Norwegian Retiree Got Caught Up in a Spy Scandal
A tale of intrigue on the Arctic border—and a new confrontation with Russia
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REUTERS/Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool American Elections Remain Unprotected
Ahead of the 2018 midterms, the threat of Russia-linked cyber and disinformation campaigns still looms large.
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Sputnik Photo Agency The Ominous, Massive Military Exercises in Eastern Europe
“When Moscow clears its throat, the region will hear it.”
