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European real wages still lag pre-pandemic levels
BRUSSELS (Realist English). Real wages across much of Europe have yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels, as the inflation surge...
Read moreIsrael blocks senior cleric from Holy Sepulchre amid tensions
JERUSALEM (Realist English). France and Italy have criticised Israel after authorities blocked Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem,...
Read moreUS shows higher poverty despite higher incomes, research says
LONDON (Realist English). A new study suggests that average poverty is significantly higher in the United States than in major...
Read moreDoeller awarded Leibniz Prize for cognitive mapping research
LEIPZIG (Realist English). Neuroscientist Christian Doeller has been awarded Germany’s prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, worth €2.5 million, for his...
Read morePeter Thiel’s Rome lectures raise Vatican concerns
ROME (Realist English). Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is delivering a series of private lectures in Rome focused on the concept...
Read moreActor and martial artist Chuck Norris dies aged 86
LOS ANGELES (Realist English). Actor and martial artist Chuck Norris, known for his roles in 1980s action films and the...
Read more“One Battle After Another” wins Best Picture at 2026 Oscars
LOS ANGELES (Realist English). Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another emerged as the biggest winner at the 98th Academy...
Read moreRussian Orthodox Church Synod approves leadership changes and structural reforms
MOSCOW (Realist English). The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church approved a series of leadership appointments, administrative reforms and...
Read moreGender gap in Japanese politics remains wide, new prefectural index shows
TOKYO (Realist English). Gender equality in politics remains limited across Japan’s 47 prefectures, according to new research released Sunday that...
Read moreHow a simple phrase can defuse manipulation in difficult conversations
NEW YORK (Realist English). A behavioral researcher with a decade of experience advising Fortune 500 companies says one of the...
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“Israel is not fighting the Iranian people, but the regime”: Alexander Tsinker on the goals of the operation against Iran
TEL AVIV (Realist English). The war in the Middle East, which began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, has entered its fifth...
Hezbollah excluded from the ceasefire: Lapshin explains why Iran agreed to the pause
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin has assessed the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, calling it a...
“Armenians are the autochthonous people of the South Caucasus”: geneticist Levon Yepiskoposyan on the Armenian gene pool and its neighbors
YEREVAN (Realist English). Levon Yepiskoposyan – Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics at the Institute of...
“The main Russophobes are the enemies of communists”: Dmitry Novikov responds to attacks on the Communist Party
MOSCOW (Realist English). In an article published in the newspaper Soviet Russia on April 4, 2026, Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee...
China’s Game of Go without rules: How the Celestial Empire “strangles in its embrace” the countries of Latin America and expands its influence in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Doctor of Political Sciences, State Counselor of the Russian Federation First Class Tatiana Poloskova, in an authorial...
Alexander Cheryomin: Karabakh is an ancient Armenian land
MOSCOW (Realist English). If one looks at the history of Yerevan, founded in 782 BC, and studies its architectural monuments, it...
The elimination of El Mencho will not stop the drug business — the threads lead to the corridors of US power
MEXICO CITY (Realist English). Mexico has been engulfed in bloody clashes for several days. After the elimination of drug lord El...
Ceasefire with Iran will not lead to peace — “neither war nor peace” will begin
MOSCOW (Realist English). In his article for Realist English, Stanislav Ivanov, a leading researcher at IMEMO RAS and Candidate of Historical...
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