Winning Chess Middlegames

This game was played by Ivan Sokolov himself against the young Fabiano Caruana at the European Championship in 2010. Now here's a pawn structure! Sokolov has two menacing pawns on e6 and d6. It's Caruana's move on move 25. Who is better and why? Can you evaluate the imbalances properly?

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