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Starlink outage crippled Pentagon drone tests, exposing reliance on SpaceX
WASHINGTON (Realist English). In August 2025, US Navy officials conducting tests of unmanned vessels discovered a critical vulnerability: a single point...
FSB reports prevention of alleged Ukraine-linked sabotage plot
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had prevented a series of planned attacks in Moscow and...
Iran warns Ukraine over drone support as countries seek Kyiv’s expertise
KYIV (Realist English). Ukraine has received requests from 11 countries seeking assistance in countering Shahed-type drones amid the ongoing Iran...
Missile strike on Bryansk leaves six dead and dozens injured
BRYANSK (Realist English). Six people were killed and 42 injured in a missile strike on the Russian city of Bryansk,...
Putin meets DPR head Pushilin to discuss reconstruction and infrastructure
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in the Kremlin on Tuesday with Denis Pushilin, the head...
Former Russian deputy defense minister charged with creating criminal organization
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against former First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov, accusing...
Netanyahu proposes new regional “hexagon” bloc against ‘radical axes’
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has unveiled a vision for a new regional alignment, describing the Middle...
Shoigu warns Armenia against replacing Russian railway operator
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia’s Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu warned that Armenia’s reported plans to replace Russia in managing the...
Zaluzhnyi breaks silence on rift with Zelenskyy as political speculation grows
LONDON (Realist English). Since his removal as commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces in 2024 and subsequent appointment as ambassador to...
Armenian battalion named after Marshal Bagramyan established in Donetsk: veterans of Abkhazia hand over their banner to Donbas volunteers
MOSCOW (Realist English). On 6 May, a historic ceremony of handing over a battle banner took place at the Cathedral of...
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...
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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