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UN chief warns of looming financial collapse amid record unpaid dues
NEW YORK (Realist English). UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the United Nations is at risk of “imminent financial...
UN to cut 25% of peacekeeping forces amid funding crisis and U.S. arrears
NEW YORK (Realist English). The United Nations will withdraw nearly a quarter of its global peacekeeping personnel in the coming...
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...
Netanyahu tells UN Israel crushed Iran’s nuclear program, rejects Palestinian statehood
NEW YORK (Realist English). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, addressing the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, declared that...
China’s Premier Li Qiang warns against ‘hegemonism’ in UN debut speech
NEW YORK (Realist English). Chinese Premier Li Qiang, the country’s second-highest official, used his first major address at the United...
Trump uses UN stage to attack allies and rivals with disputed claims
NEW YORK (Realist English). President Donald Trump delivered a confrontational address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, criticising...
United Nations proposes $500m budget cuts under ‘UN80’ reform plan
NEW YORK (Realist English). The United Nations has completed its revised budget assessment for 2026, proposing more than $500 million...
China’s delayed UN payments deepen global body’s financial strain
GENEVA (Realist English). China has been settling its annual dues to the United Nations later each year, aggravating the organization’s...
UN rights chief urges Israel to halt Gaza City assault
GENEVA (Realist English). The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Tuesday urged Israel to halt its...
“We Are Witnessing the Messianic Footsteps”: Avigdor Eskin on Israel’s War with Iran
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli public figure and publicist Avigdor Eskin argues that we live in an era of “incredible acceleration,” when...
“Israel is not fighting the Iranian people, but the regime”: Alexander Tsinker on the goals of the operation against Iran
TEL AVIV (Realist English). The war in the Middle East, which began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, has entered its fifth...
“Armenians are the autochthonous people of the South Caucasus”: geneticist Levon Yepiskoposyan on the Armenian gene pool and its neighbors
YEREVAN (Realist English). Levon Yepiskoposyan – Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics at the Institute of...
Oleg Morozov: Mintimer Shaimiev is a sage with political genius
MOSCOW (Realist English). Oleg Morozov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Control and a member of the United Russia party,...
China’s Game of Go without rules: How the Celestial Empire “strangles in its embrace” the countries of Latin America and expands its influence in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Doctor of Political Sciences, State Counselor of the Russian Federation First Class Tatiana Poloskova, in an authorial...
Alexander Cheryomin: Karabakh is an ancient Armenian land
MOSCOW (Realist English). If one looks at the history of Yerevan, founded in 782 BC, and studies its architectural monuments, it...
The elimination of El Mencho will not stop the drug business — the threads lead to the corridors of US power
MEXICO CITY (Realist English). Mexico has been engulfed in bloody clashes for several days. After the elimination of drug lord El...
Ceasefire with Iran will not lead to peace — “neither war nor peace” will begin
MOSCOW (Realist English). In his article for Realist English, Stanislav Ivanov, a leading researcher at IMEMO RAS and Candidate of Historical...
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