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In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un attend a gala concert in Pyongyang, on Wednesday. Gavriil Grigorov/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Leaders of Russia and North Korea sign pact -- indicating a deeper cooperation
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Vietnam's President To Lam pose for photos at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Thursday. Nhac Nguyen/Pool photo via AP hide caption
Part of a welcome for the United States-Soviet commission on Korea on their arrival in Pyongyang on July 23, 1947, was this parade of Korean communists carrying huge portraits of Josef Stalin and Kim Il Sung. The commission visited Pyongyang, 165 miles north of Seoul, for the purpose of getting views of political groups on the prospecting. U.S. Army Signal Corps/AP hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a bilateral meeting on Thursday in Beijing, China. Contributor/Getty Images hide caption
Russian President and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin meets with the media at his campaign headquarters in Moscow on Monday. Natatlia Kolesnikova/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
After a quarter century in power, Russian President Putin isn't going anywhere
A member of a local election commission prepares a polling station with a sign that reads "Election of the President of Russia March 15-17 2024" for early voting in the village of Sennaya Guba, Republic of Karelia, on March 10. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
People watch as workers carry the coffin of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Relieve My Sorrows" in Moscow, Friday. AP hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address in Moscow on Thursday. Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin gets off a Tu-160M strategic bomber after a flight in Kazan, Russia, on Thursday. Dmitry Azarov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP hide caption
Boris Nadezhdin, a liberal Russian politician who was disqualified from the March presidential election, awaits a meeting of Russia's Central Election Commission in Moscow, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a factory on Thursday. Ramil Sitdikov/AP hide caption
Putin's regime is 'running out of fuel,' a Russian opposition activist tells NPR
Yulia Navalnaya, wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, attends the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Feb. 16, on the day it was announced that Alexei Navalny had died. Kai Pfaffenbach/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Protesters light candles on Friday in front of the Russian Embassy in Prague after the announcement that the Kremlin's most prominent critic, Alexei Navalny, had died in an Arctic prison. Milan Kammermayer/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Yekaterina Duntsova looks on after submitting her documents as a presidential candidate for the upcoming election. She secured a nomination from a group of more than 500 supporters as required by Russian electoral law. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP hide caption
In this image taken from video, smoke rises from the crash of a private jet near the village of Kuzhenkino in the Tver region of Russia, on Aug. 23. Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, and his top lieutenants were among the 10 people killed in the crash northwest of the Russian capital. AP hide caption
In this pool photo distributed by Sputnik agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un visit the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region on Wednesday. Mikhail Metzel/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Kim Jong Un vows full support for Russia as Putin pledges space tech for North Korea
Church personnel inspect the damage inside the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, Ukraine, Sunday, following Russian missile attacks. Jae C. Hong/AP hide caption
CIA Director William Burns speaks during the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. Dan Bayer, Aspen Security Forum hide caption
A ship carrying grain from Ukraine arrives in Istanbul, Turkey in Nov. 2022. On Monday, Russia again said it would pull out of the U.N.-backed deal. Chris McGrath/Getty Images hide caption
A Ukrainian serviceman of the 3rd Assault Brigade prepares to fire a mortar toward Russian positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday. Alex Babenko/AP hide caption
Russia's President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation in Moscow on June 26. Gavriil Grigorov/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation on Saturday after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, called for armed rebellion and reached the southern city of Rostov-on-Don. Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP hide caption