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Putin and Xi reaffirm ‘combat-tested’ Russia-China partnership during Kremlin visit
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping made a joint press statement on May 8...
Putin: Restraint on nuclear response prevented global catastrophe
MOSCOW (Realist English). President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia deliberately refrained from using nuclear weapons during the ongoing conflict...
Kremlin puts Kiriyenko in charge of ties with Armenia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Sergey Kiriyenko, first deputy chief of staff to the Russian president, has been tasked with coordinating relations...
Russia’s Afghan failure: No allies, no leverage, no strategy
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia’s greatest weakness today may well be its lack of allies. Apart from a possible exception in...
Putin and Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff move closer on Ukraine
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held his fourth meeting in Moscow with Steve Witkoff, the special envoy appointed...
Putin hosts Trump envoy in public talks, sidelines Kyiv
SAINT PETERSBURG (RealistEnglish). Steve Witkoff, a personal envoy of Donald Trump, held a high-level meeting with President Vladimir Putin in...
Results of Mishustin’s visit to China: the struggle for world leadership takes on more concrete features
BEIJING (English Realist). The visit of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to China has ended. This is one of the...
The surrender of Artsakh will lead to Russia’s withdrawal from Transcaucasia
YEREVAN (Realist English). After the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the Kremlin's influence in the South Caucasus has significantly decreased,...
How will the special operation in the Ukraine evolve
DONETSK (Realist English). The former head of the DPR MGB, Andrei Pinchuk, believes that it will not be possible to...
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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