Oil hurricane lifts ruble: dollar falls to 75, Urals jumps to $116
MOSCOW (Realist English). April became the most triumphant month for the ruble in the last three years. Against the backdrop of...
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“Aren’t you ashamed?”: Ruben Vardanyan publicly flogs traitor Pashinyan from Baku prison
YEREVAN (Realist English). While the traitor of the Armenian people, Nikol Pashinyan, was playing the role of a "peacemaker" and receiving...
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Stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz: neither peace nor victory – how the US and Iran got stuck in a zero-sum game
DUBAI (Realist English). Diplomatic efforts between the United States and Iran appear to have reached a deadlock, despite optimistic rhetoric...
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Brent hovers near $102 as US‑Iran talks become main oil price trigger
NEW YORK (Realist English). On May 7, 2026, the global oil market remained highly volatile. Prices moved lower amid reports...
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Catholicism is losing adherents worldwide while Protestantism grows in Latin America – Pew study
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Christianity as a whole is losing adherents due to religious switching (changing one's faith in adulthood compared to...
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US and Iran exchange strikes, Hezbollah mobilises
DUBAI (Realist English). While diplomats tried to salvage a fragile ceasefire, fresh explosions rocked the Strait of Hormuz and southern Lebanon. ...
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Armenian battalion named after Marshal Bagramyan established in Donetsk: veterans of Abkhazia hand over their banner to Donbas volunteers
MOSCOW (Realist English). On 6 May, a historic ceremony of handing over a battle banner took place at the Cathedral of...
Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
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Is Iran’s survival not a victory? Tehran under US and Israeli pressure
TEL AVIV (Realist English). For decades, Iran defined victory in expansive terms: exporting revolution, rolling back US influence, and ultimately eliminating...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
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