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Azerbaijan’s Foreign Policy
ECHR orders Baku to disclose data on torture of Armenian political prisoners
BAKU (Realist English). The Baku regime continues to cynically flout international law, illegally holding dozens of Armenian political prisoners. Despite the...
Seized lands, criminality and separatism: how Azerbaijan threatens Georgia’s integrity
TBILISI (Realist English). Georgia, which for decades has struggled to preserve its territorial integrity after losing Abkhazia and South Ossetia, faces...
Baku and Ankara cement alliance: economy, army and ‘Turkic front’ against Russia
BAKU (Realist English). On April 17, at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, the leaders of Turkey and Azerbaijan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ilham Aliyev, held...
Murder in Mulhouse, attacks in Nantes and Washington: how Aliyev fights critics in Europe and the US
BAKU (Realist English). Azerbaijani opposition forces are increasingly voicing sharp criticism of the regime of Ilham Aliyev, accusing him of persecuting dissidents...
Baku and Kyiv Created an Anti-Russian Alliance: From Gas Supplies to Secret Military Collaboration
BAKU (Realist English). Behind the facade of economic gain and diplomatic pleasantries lies systematic work by Azerbaijan and Ukraine to undermine...
Compensations Did Not Stop the Slander Against Russia: How Azerbaijan Profited from the Embraer 190 Tragedy
MOSCOW / BAKU (Realist English). The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Russia and so-called Azerbaijan signed a joint statement on April...
“The regime fears the truth”: Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court upholds sentences of Abzas Media journalists
BAKU (Realist English). Over the past week, a series of events have laid bare the true nature of Ilham Aliyev’s regime...
Up to 50,000 terrorists preparing for Azerbaijan operation, analyst warns
MOSCOW (Realist English). Up to 50,000 fighters from among Pakistan’s Punjabis and Pashtuns are being prepared for redeployment to Azerbaijan...
“Baku’s expansionist policy continues”: Sergey Mardan on “Western Azerbaijan”
MOSCOW (Realist English). Journalist Sergey Mardan has warned that recent statements by the Baku mini-sultanate about so-called “Western Azerbaijan” underscore...
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...
155 billionaires vs. 150 million people: Zyuganov on the social catastrophe in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov presented the pre-election program "Victory...
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...
Pentagon withdraws troops from Germany: minus 5,000 soldiers in Europe and cancellation of a missile battalion
BERLIN (Realist English). On 2 May, the Pentagon officially announced the withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany over the next...
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