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Georgia
Georgia has become the transit capital of drugs: tons of heroin, thousands of crimes and a railway to nowhere
TBILISI (Realist English). Georgia is experiencing a deep drug crisis: addiction rates are rising, drug-related crimes are increasing rapidly, and the...
Child poverty in Georgia: 37.8% of children lack basic necessities, 45% lack school supplies
TBILISI (Realist English). Georgia’s economic growth is accompanied by deepening regional inequality and a growing gap between official poverty figures and...
Georgia strengthens its status as a transit hub: The Middle Corridor gains momentum
TBILISI (Realist English). Over the past month, Georgia has strengthened its position as a key transit hub between Asia and Europe....
Protests in Tbilisi, reset with the US, and IMF forecasts: main events in Georgia over the week
TBILISI (Realist English). Over the past week, a number of events have taken place in Georgia spanning domestic politics, foreign policy...
Georgia reassures UK on sanctions amid scrutiny of transit role
TBILISI (Realist English). Georgia and the United Kingdom have discussed compliance with international sanctions, including in maritime transport, amid growing...
Georgia’s ruling party seeks to ban three main opposition groups, triggering outcry in Europe
TBILISI (Realist English). Georgia’s ruling party Georgian Dream has filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court seeking to ban three...
Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey pledge to boost competitiveness of Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway
TBILISI (Realist English). Railway officials from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey have agreed on joint steps to enhance the competitiveness of...
Georgia to boycott EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Luxembourg
TBILISI (Realist English). Georgia will not participate in the upcoming European Union foreign ministers’ meeting on connectivity, scheduled for October...
Former Georgian defense minister faces pre-trial detention on corruption charges
TBILISI (Realist English). A Tbilisi city court has ordered pre-trial detention for former Georgian defense minister Juansher Burchuladze, who was...
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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