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‘Goodbye Trump’: Europe seeks new trade allies in Asia-Pacific
BRUSSELS (Realist English). Frustrated by escalating trade tensions with Donald Trump, the European Union is turning its gaze eastward, pursuing...
Strait of Hormuz at risk as Middle East tensions mount over potential Israeli strike on Iran
DUBAI (Realist English). Global maritime operators are on high alert amid growing fears that a military confrontation between Israel and...
World Bank slashes 2025 global growth forecast amid deepening trade tensions
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The World Bank has significantly downgraded its global economic growth forecast for 2025, warning that persistent trade...
India and EU reach partial trade deal consensus, exclude dairy and rice amid political sensitivities
NEW DELHI / BRUSSELS (Realist English). India and the European Union have reached agreement on nearly half of the chapters...
The USA has offered Armenia the status of a country with a market economy
YEREVAN (Realist English). The United States is considering the possibility of assigning Armenia the status of a country with a...
Armenia and Iran intend to increase trade turnover to $3 billion
YEREVAN (Realist English). Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure of Armenia Gnel Sanosyan and Deputy Minister of Petroleum of Iran,...
World capitals flow into gold bars
LONDON (Realist English). Globally, a quiet and confident stocking of gold continues. Central banks have been buying it for the...
World oil supply hit a post-pandemic high
PARIS (Realist English). In July, oil supplies in the world reached a post-pandemic high against the backdrop of increased production...
Trade turnover between Iran and Turkey increased by 37%
TEHRAN (Realist English). In the first six months of 2022, the value of Iran's exports to Turkey increased by 61%,...
FBI launches criminal investigation into former CIA and FBI chiefs over 2016 Russia probe
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened criminal investigations into former CIA Director John Brennan and former...
Roman Starovoit and the collapse of a technocratic glossy dream
MOSCOW (Realist English). I can’t stop thinking about the story of Roman Starovoit. If you think about it, the former...
Putin calls for deeper BRICS cooperation and new financial infrastructure at Rio summit
RIO DE JANEIRO (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin called for stronger integration among BRICS nations and greater independence from...
Elon Musk announces launch of third party after fallout with Trump
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced on Saturday the formation of a new political force — the America...
Roman Starovoit and the collapse of a technocratic glossy dream
MOSCOW (Realist English). I can’t stop thinking about the story of Roman Starovoit. If you think about it, the former...
Bezos’s Venetian wedding: a manifesto of new feudalism
VENICE (Realist English). When Jeff Bezos rents half of Venice for a $50 million wedding, it is more than the...
Not Mossad’s strength — but Iran’s weakness
TBILISI (Realist English). The recent targeted assassinations of senior IRGC commanders and high-ranking Iranian officers are not simply the triumph...
The Church belongs to Christ, not to politicians: The Armenian Apostolic Church becomes a casualty of Yerevan’s political agony
YEREVAN (Realist English). First, they handed over part of the Holy Land to the Baku fascists, betraying the Armenians of...
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