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Economic Warfare
Reduction of gas supplies from Russia could paralyze German industry
BERLIN (Realist English). Amid rising tensions between Moscow and the west over the conflict in Ukraine, Russia has already drastically reduced...
Russia’s economy is doing much better than expected: JPMorgan
MOSCOW (Realist English). The Russian economy's downturn this year will be much milder than originally expected, with gross domestic product...
US has imposed ban on import of Russian gold
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The US Treasury Department has imposed an embargo on gold imports from Russia, as well as new...
Deutsche Bank CEO considers inflation the “strongest poison” for the global economy
BERLIN (Realist English). Europe and the U.S. face a high likelihood of recession as central banks are forced to aggressively...
Canadian company Kinross Gold has sold gold mining assets in Russia
TORONTO (Realist English). Canadian gold mining company Kinross Gold Corporation has announced the sale of 100% of its Russian assets...
The world economy will be divided by new trading blocs — Wood Mackenzie
EDINBURGH (Realist English). Against the backdrop of US and EU sanctions against Russia, Peter Martin, research director at commodity research...
EU simplifies confiscation of Russian oligarchs’ property
BRUSSELS (Realist English). The European Commission is preparing new rules that would make it easier for EU governments to confiscate...
The desire to put pressure on Russia prevails over common sense
REYKJAVIK (Realist English). The cultural, economic, scientific, and political influence of Russia is too strong, and it, objectively, cannot be...
Canada and Germany will together try to strengthen Russia’s economic isolation
OTTAWA (Realist English). Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a telephone conversation agreed to continue...
“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...
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...
“Playing the Kurdish card isn’t working for the CIA and Mossad”: expert on the position of Kurds amid the war in Iran
MOSCOW (Realist English). The war between the United States and Israel against Iran has not led to the activation of Kurdish...
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