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Russia’s Foreign Policy
Putin links Ukraine conflict to geopolitics at Valdai forum
SOCHI (Realist English). —Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the plenary session of the XXII annual meeting of the Valdai International...
Moscow signals readiness for dialogue on ‘Trump Road’ and regional security in Armenia
YEREVAN (Realist English). Russia’s ambassador to Armenia, Sergey Kopyrkin, said Moscow remains committed to regional stability and close cooperation with...
Lavrov accuses West of undermining UN order, calls for Global South reforms
NEW YORK (Realist English). Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the 80th session of the UN General Assembly on September...
Leaked documents reveal Russia and Vietnam using oil profits to bypass sanctions for arms deals
HANOI (Realist English). Russia and Vietnam have devised a concealed system for settling arms contracts that bypasses Western financial sanctions,...
Russia and China expand cooperation on Arctic, AI and energy at Vladivostok forum
VLADIVOSTOK (Realist English). Russia has pledged to expand cooperation with China in the Arctic and deepen ties in energy and...
Beijing meeting highlights Russia-Pakistan push for new trade routes
BEIJING (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif on the sidelines of an...
Peskov: Putin feels “at home” in China as Moscow and Beijing honor wartime legacy
BEIJING (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin’s four-day trip to China reflects the exceptional closeness of bilateral relations, Kremlin spokesman...
Putin arrives in Tianjin for SCO summit, to continue visit in Beijing
TIANJIN (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in Tianjin on Sunday morning to attend the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization...
Moscow claims near-total control of Luhansk as top general outlines next campaign phase
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian chief of the General Staff and commander of the joint forces in Ukraine, Army General Valery...
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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