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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Results of Mishustin’s visit to China: the struggle for world leadership takes on more concrete features
BEIJING (English Realist). The visit of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to China has ended. This is one of the...
Union of Russia and China: who will win?
MOSCOW (Realist English). Comrade Xi Jinping's historic visit to Moscow has come to an end. This visit caused a storm...
Truss’s resignation: Britain’s elite confuses incompetence with lack of initiative
LONDON (Realist English). British Prime Minister Liz Truss announced her resignation on the 45th day of her premiership. The reasons...
Alexander Bortnikov: a man of the extraordinary era
MOSCOW (Realist English). Today, our hero in the Symbols of the Epoch series is the Director of the Federal Security...
Sanctions became the pretext, not the reason for Alekperov’s resignation
MOSCOW (Realist English). The founder of Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov, said that he had decided to resign from the post of...
To offer the Ukraine an ideology, Russia needs to change itself
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia should burn out the ideology of Nazism in the Ukraine, and at this stage of the...
Putin’s elite in person: power in Russia is not an inheritance, but a whole planet
Realist: How have elite groups changed in Russia during Vladimir Putin's 20 years in power? Zhuravlev: First of all, the...
Trump warns Iran as US carrier group moves closer, raising fears of imminent military clash
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The risk of open conflict between the United States and Iran intensified after US President Donald Trump...
Turkey watches Iran protests warily, prioritising stability over regime change
ANKARA (Realist English). Turkey is closely monitoring the ongoing protests in Iran, wary that prolonged unrest could destabilise a key...
IRGC says it foiled foreign-backed plot to destabilise Iran
TEHRAN (Realist English). The Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it has dismantled what it described...
US, Russia and Ukraine report progress after trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi
ABU DHABI (Realist English). Trilateral talks between the United States, Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi were “productive” and resulted...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
Dadivank: The Legacy of Christ’s Apostles in Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). In Artsakh, before the ethnic cleansing and forced deportation – simply put, genocide – carried out by...
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...
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