The Takeaway: Russia, Israel weigh consequences of fallout in ties over Ukraine 

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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi on Sept. 29, 2021. - VLADIMIR SMIRNOV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
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The lead: ‘Few illusions about Erdogan’ in Moscow 

The mood in Russia about the Ukraine war is "much less pessimistic" than Western media may be reporting, says Dimitri Simes, one of the top American experts on Russia, president and CEO of the Center for the National Interest, and publisher of its foreign policy magazine, The National Interest. 

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