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Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Policy
Saudi Arabia launches humanitarian projects in Syria, pledges support for rubble clearance and infrastructure rebuilding
DAMASCUS (Realist English). Saudi Arabia on Sunday unveiled a series of humanitarian projects in Syria, including large-scale rubble clearance in...
Trump seals $600B in deals with Saudi Arabia, including record defense contract and Syria policy shift
RIYADH (Realist English). U.S. President Donald Trump has launched his second-term Middle East tour with a high-profile visit to Saudi...
Trump administration to offer $100 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia in exchange for Israel ties
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The administration of President Donald Trump is preparing a landmark arms and defense technology package for Saudi...
Xi Jinping arrives in Riyadh for the Sino-Arab summit
RIYADH (Realist English). On December 7, Chinese President Xi Jinping is arriving in Riyadh for a three-day visit, where he...
Iran and Saudi Arabia are ready for reconciliation
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran and Saudi Arabia are ready to take reconciliation talks to a higher level. This was announced...
The US has to blame itself for the energy crisis: ex-head of Saudi intelligence
RIYADH (Realist English). A senior member of the Saudi royal family, the former head of Saudi intelligence Prince Turki al-Faisal...
Nancy Pelosi to retire from Congress after nearly 40 years in office
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Nancy Pelosi, the trailblazing California Democrat who became the first woman to serve as Speaker of the...
Japan weighs expanding defense budget to include space and infrastructure projects
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan is considering a significant expansion of what qualifies as defense-related spending, potentially counting space, infrastructure, and...
Putin convenes Security Council over Trump’s call to resume U.S. nuclear testing
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Friday to discuss Washington’s...
Putin appoints Vitaly Korolyov as acting governor of Tver region
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Vitaly Korolyov as acting governor of the Tver region, according to...
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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