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Oil blockade strangles Iran: production falls to 3 million barrels per day, gas sector cracking at the seams
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran's oil and gas industries, the backbone of its economy, are under unprecedented pressure from the US naval...
King Charles III addresses U.S. Congress: praise for NATO, ‘checks and balances’ and silence on Epstein
WASHINGTON (Realist English). On 28 April, King Charles III of the United Kingdom addressed a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress...
NATO selects Swedish-Canadian AWACS aircraft instead of US Boeing
VIENNA (Realist English). NATO's Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has selected Sweden's Saab and Canada's Bombardier to replace the alliance's ageing...
Rubio rejects Iran’s new proposal on Hormuz: ‘They say — we’ll blow you up, and you pay us’
WASHINGTON (Realist English). US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has rejected Iran's recent proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz under...
Araghchi heads to Moscow: Putin to host Iran’s foreign minister after US talks collapse
MOSCOW (Realist English). Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is continuing his regional tour despite US President Donald Trump cancelling the trip of his...
China remains leader of sympathies in Africa, Russia in third place — Afrobarometer survey
CASABLANCA (Realist English). China maintains its dominant position in the struggle for influence in Africa, significantly outperforming the United States and...
Diplomatic collapse: US-Iran talks fail, Lebanon ceasefire frayed
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The tense week in US-Iranian relations has ended in a complete failure of diplomatic efforts. The second round...
Azerbaijan provided its territory for strikes on Iran: source
MOSCOW (Realist English). Iranian sources claim that Azerbaijan has provided its territory for strikes against the Islamic Republic, and this information...
US-Iran talks collapse, Netanyahu orders strikes on Hezbollah
TEHRAN (Realist English). The outgoing week saw the complete breakdown of US-Iranian peace talks mediated by Pakistan, alongside a parallel escalation...
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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