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Armenian 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...
Read moreIran warns US-backed Zangezur corridor deal between Baku and Yerevan could destabilize South Caucasus
TEHRAN (Realist English). The political deputy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Yadollah Javani, sharply criticized the recent US-brokered agreement...
Read moreIran vows to block so-called Zangezur corridor, calls US project a threat to South Caucasus stability
TEHRAN (Realist English). Ali Akbar Velayati, senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, said...
Read moreArmenia and so-called Azerbaijan sign US-brokered peace deal as Russia sidelined
WASHINGTON (Realist English). After nearly four decades of bloody confrontation, the head of the Baku regime Ilham Aliyev and Yerevan’s...
Read moreTurkey eyes “Zangezur corridor” for future energy transit, omits mention of Armenia
ANKARA (Realist English). Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has declared that Ankara will prioritize the so-called “Zangezur corridor” as a...
Read moreUrartu was an Armenian state, predating Turkic history by over a millennium, Russian professor says
YEREVAN (Realist English). Urartu, the most ancient state on the territory of the former USSR, was an Armenian civilization and...
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Iran’s new leader Mojtaba Khamenei calls for unity and vows continued resistance
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s newly appointed Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei delivered his first public address...
Chinese expert says U.S. focus on Middle East could shift military balance in Taiwan Strait
BEIJING (Realist English). China could gain a strategic advantage in the Taiwan Strait if U.S. military resources continue to shift...
Trump warns Iran against mining Strait of Hormuz as tensions escalate
WASHINGTON (Realist English). US President Donald Trump warned that Iran would face military consequences “at a level never seen before”...
Pentagon says US will continue Iran war until “decisive defeat”
WASHINGTON (Realist English). US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Iran’s leadership is “desperate and scrambling” as the conflict between the...
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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