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President Tokayev meets ExxonMobil CEO to discuss Kazakhstan’s energy cooperation
ASTANA (Realist English). President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev met with Darren Woods, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ExxonMobil, on...
Tokayev intends to become not a formal, but a real national leader of Kazakhstan
NUR-SULTAN (Realist English). President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev delivered a sensational report to the deputies of the National Parliament on...
Relationships with Kazakhstan are under Putin’s personal control
MOSCOW (Realist English). Kazakhstan has the status of a strategic priority for the Russian leadership, and the Kazakh direction of...
Russia has again limited the volume of oil transit from Kazakhstan
MOSCOW (Realist English). The Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which operates of the main route for oil exports from Kazakhstan, announced for...
Tokayev’s “Hearing state”: will the Kazakh authorities hear their people?
NURSULTAN (Realist English). To implement the concept of a "hearing state" — this is how its President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev defined...
China opposes incitement to “color revolutions” in Central Asia
NURSULTAN (Realist English). Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe called on Central Asian countries to be ready for foreign meddling. During...
Residents of Kazakhstan do not believe in the official version of the January riots
NUR-SULTAN (Realist English). Three months after the unrest in Kazakhstan caused by rising natural gas prices, local residents still have...
China and U.S. hold 2025 maritime safety talks in Hawaii amid efforts to manage military risks
HONOLULU (Realist English). China and the United States convened the second working-group meeting and the 2025 annual session under the...
CBO cuts $1 trillion from Trump’s projected tariff revenues
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The Congressional Budget Office has sharply reduced its forecast for tariff revenues, cutting an estimated $1 trillion...
Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign from Congress after rift with Trump
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the most polarizing figures in US politics, announced on Friday that...
Putin says Russia ready for peace talks but awaits U.S.-Ukraine clarity on Trump’s proposal
MOSCOW (Realist English). President Vladimir Putin convened a video-link meeting of Russia’s Security Council on Friday, bringing together senior officials...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
Putin, Trump and Zelensky: is a trilateral meeting necessary?
MOSCOW (Realist English). Although more than a week has passed since the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S....
Russia’s elite: from Soviet nomenklatura to state corporations
MOSCOW (Realist English). The specificity of the Russian elite is defined by the nature of its origins: it grew out...
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