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Ankara and Baku’s double standards — denial of genocide and a bloody orgy against the peoples of the region
BAKU / ANKARA (Realist English). While the entire civilised world bowed its head on 24 April in memory of one and...
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...
Parliamentary elections in Armenia: repression, insults to the opposition and a new constitution ‘for Baku’
YEREVAN (Realist English). The past week in Armenia has been marked by a sharp increase in both the foreign policy activity...
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...
Russian Foreign Ministry demands Mexico return abducted Russian girl: ambassador summoned to the carpet
MOSCOW (Realist English). On April 16, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Ambassador of Mexico to Moscow, Eduardo Villegas Mejías. He...
“Azerbaijan’s authorities feast, the people starve”: opposition politician Ali Kerimli from prison cell on social collapse and silenced protest
BAKU (Realist English). While official propaganda in Azerbaijan continues to report on successes and economic growth, voices from those who find...
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...
“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...
The Baku dictator is preparing an attack on the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh: Members of the House of Lords
LONDON (Realist English). Baroness Caroline Cox, Lord Andrew Green of Deddington, Lord David Elton of Liverpool, the American Christian human...
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...
‘Behind dry laws are living people and destinies’: Lawyer Narek Petrosyan on replacing justice with convenience
MOSCOW (Realist English). Narek Petrosyan is a criminal defense lawyer who made himself. He overcame many obstacles on his path to the...
«The Kurdish card is a weapon of major powers»: Yaşar Yakış on why Turkey missed its chance to solve the Kurdish issue
ANKARA (Realist English). Yaşar Yakış — a Turkish diplomat and statesman who served as Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs, ambassador to Saudi...
Dmitry Novikov on his path to politics, the intelligentsia, the left movement, and why US aggression against Iran is a threat to Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Dmitry Novikov, Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee and First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma...
A century of violence from the Jeddah massacre to the killings in Kobani: how Turkey exterminated Arabs
ISTANBUL (Realist English). The long and bloody history of the Turkish state's relations with the Arab population — both Muslim and...
US-Iran talks collapse, Netanyahu orders strikes on Hezbollah
TEHRAN (Realist English). The outgoing week saw the complete breakdown of US-Iranian peace talks mediated by Pakistan, alongside a parallel escalation...
3.6 million Christians were killed in Ottoman Turkey: marking the anniversary of an unrecognised genocide
YEREVAN / ATHENS (Realist English). On April 24, 2026, the Armenian people, the worldwide diaspora and many other nations commemorated the...
Venezuela after Maduro: oil instead of democracy?
CARACAS (Realist English). When U.S. forces swooped into Caracas in January 2026 and seized President Nicolás Maduro, many Venezuelans inside and outside...
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