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Oil Market
Brent Crude Surges to $115 After Strike on U.S. Vessel Near Hormuz
NEW YORK (Realist English). The global oil market experienced one of its most volatile trading days in the past 18...
Oil falls on reports of Hormuz unblocking, but Brent holds above $108
NEW YORK (Realist English). Oil prices corrected sharply lower after US President Donald Trump announced the end of the conflict with...
Russia’s April oil and gas revenues double to 950 billion rubles
MOSCOW (Realist English). April 2026 was a month of record oil and gas revenues for Russia. The war between the US...
Brent hits highest since 2022, breaking above $123: chronicle of price shock from closed Strait of Hormuz
NEW YORK (Realist English). Oil prices have hit multi‑year highs, surpassing $126 per barrel for Brent, amid reports that US President...
UAE leaves OPEC from May 1: oil jumps to $111
DUBAI (Realist English). The United Arab Emirates has announced its withdrawal from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and...
Oil prices rise: Brent at $107, Urals at $95
LONDON (Realist English). The global oil market remains in the grip of acute geopolitical turbulence. By the close of trading on...
Ruble strengthens 7% in April: $100 oil and budget rule change the course
MOSCOW (Realist English). Over the past month, the Russian ruble has shown one of its strongest gains in the last two...
The petrodollar myth: FT explains what really keeps the dollar on top
LONDON (Realist English). The US‑Israeli war against Iran, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and talk of shifting oil deals...
Oil and gas on April 25: Brent held at $105, Urals at $90, IEA sounds alarm
LONDON (Realist English). At the close of trading on 25 April, Brent crude oil prices settled above $105 per barrel, posting...
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...
Is Iran’s survival not a victory? Tehran under US and Israeli pressure
TEL AVIV (Realist English). For decades, Iran defined victory in expansive terms: exporting revolution, rolling back US influence, and ultimately eliminating...
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...
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