Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi before a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Aug. 30. Florence Lo/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Evan Gershkovich stands inside a defendants' cage before a June hearing in Moscow. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images 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
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Vladimir Smirnov/AP hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prior to their talks in Vladivostok on April 25, 2019. The two leaders are due to meet again in Vladivostok this week. Alexander Zemlianichenko / POOL / AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin last met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2019 in Vladivostok. The Kremlin confirmed Monday that Kim and Putin will meet again this week, also in Vladivostok. Alexey Nikolsky/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Technicians at the Khmelnytskyi nuclear power plant demonstrate the process for reactivating one of the facility's Soviet-era reactors. Brian Mann/NPR hide caption
Ukraine strains to safely operate nuclear power plants while under Russian invasion
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodríguez, shake hands during a meeting in Havana on April 20. Ramon Espinosa/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) listens to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during their meeting at Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, Monday. Sergei Guneyev/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP hide caption
Turkey has failed to persuade Russia to rejoin the Ukraine grain deal
The Nobel laureates and the royal family of Sweden during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm on Dec. 10 2022. The Nobel Foundation has withdrawn its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year's award ceremonies. Pontus Lundahl/AP hide caption
In side-by-side photos: Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting in Moscow, Aug. 23, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a meeting of the ruling Workers' Party at its headquarters in Pyongyang, North Korea, in early 2023. Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool and Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP hide caption
Flowers left on the grave of Yevgeny Prigozhin who died in a plane crash are seen during the funeral ceremony at a cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
Paul Whelan is seen in new video released by the Russian state-controlled outlet Russia Today. Russia Today/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Relatives and soldiers mourn the death of fighter pilot Andrii "Juice" Pilshchykov, 30, during his funeral on Tuesday in Kyiv, Ukraine. Paula Bronstein/Getty Images hide caption
Facebook's parent company, Meta, says operations linked to China and Russia used fake accounts across social media sites to spread messages Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Meta says Chinese, Russian influence operations are among the biggest it's taken down
A portrait of the late owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin sits at an informal memorial next to the former the group's headquarters in St. Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 24. Dmitri Lovetsky/AP hide caption
A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin lays at an informal street memorial near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP hide caption
A portrait of Yevgeny Prigozhin is seen among flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of the Wagner Group headquarters in St. Petersburg, Friday. Prigozhin and other members of the mercenary company are believed to have died in a plane crash in Russia. Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A view of the site after a jet crashed in Russia's northwestern Tver region on Aug. 23. Russian authorities say Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was among those on the flight manifest. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to families of those killed in the crash. He noted Wagner members were reportedly on board and spoke warmly of his relationship with Prigozhin in the past tense. Wagner Telegram Account/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
What we know — and don't — about the Russian crash that possibly killed Prigozhin
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, looks from a military vehicle leaving an area of the HQ of the Southern Military District in a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24. AP hide caption
Eduard Skoryk (center) helps lift Viktor Nesterov onto an evacuation train. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
An injured man walks in Krasna Square in front of the Taras Shevchenko Chernihiv Regional Academic Music and Drama Theatre, after a Russian attack on Chernihiv, Ukraine, on Saturday. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption
FILE - In this image made from video released by Roscosmos State Space Corporation, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the moon lander Luna-25 automatic station takes off from a launch pad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. AP hide caption
Russia and India are landing close to the moon's south pole. Researchers believe water ice hidden in craters could one day supply lunar colonies with vital resources. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption