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Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey pledge to boost competitiveness of Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway
TBILISI (Realist English). Railway officials from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey have agreed on joint steps to enhance the competitiveness of...
Read moreMoscow signals readiness for dialogue on ‘Trump Road’ and regional security in Armenia
YEREVAN (Realist English). Russia’s ambassador to Armenia, Sergey Kopyrkin, said Moscow remains committed to regional stability and close cooperation with...
Read moreGeorgia to boycott EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Luxembourg
TBILISI (Realist English). Georgia will not participate in the upcoming European Union foreign ministers’ meeting on connectivity, scheduled for October...
Read moreYerevan backs new international cargo corridor linking Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Armenia
YEREVAN (Realist English). Armenia has endorsed a project to establish an international transport corridor for cargo shipments along the route...
Read moreAzerbaijan to raise military spending share in 2026 budget
BAKU (Realist English). Azerbaijan plans to increase the share of military spending in its 2026 state budget to 21%, according...
Read moreArmenian spy chief: External war threats low, internal risks to democracy remain high
YEREVAN (Realist English). Armenia’s foreign intelligence chief, Kristina Grigoryan, said on Tuesday that security and military threats facing the country...
Read moreFormer Georgian defense minister faces pre-trial detention on corruption charges
TBILISI (Realist English). A Tbilisi city court has ordered pre-trial detention for former Georgian defense minister Juansher Burchuladze, who was...
Read more“Baku’s expansionist policy continues”: Sergey Mardan on “Western Azerbaijan”
MOSCOW (Realist English). Journalist Sergey Mardan has warned that recent statements by the Baku mini-sultanate about so-called “Western Azerbaijan” underscore...
Read moreGeorgian PM grants state security rank to newly appointed intelligence chief Mamuka Mdinaradze
TBILISI (Realist English). Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has formally awarded the rank of lieutenant of state security to newly...
Read moreArmenia denies reports of leasing Syunik corridor for 99 years
YEREVAN (Realist English). Armenian foreign minister Ararat Mirzoyan has dismissed claims that Yerevan agreed to lease a corridor through the...
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More than 200,000 European banking jobs at risk as AI drives restructuring
LONDON (Realist English). More than 200,000 jobs in Europe’s banking sector could be eliminated over the next five years as...
Russia hands US data on downed Ukrainian drone near Novgorod
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia’s military intelligence chief Igor Kostyukov has met with a representative of the US military attaché’s office...
China tightens silver export controls, raising alarm over supply chains
BEIJING (Realist English). China is set to tighten controls on silver exports from Thursday, expanding restrictions on a metal increasingly...
CIA carried out drone strike on Venezuelan port facility, sources say
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The Central Intelligence Agency was behind a drone strike last week on a docking facility believed to...
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...
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....
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