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Construction of Rasht–Astara railway in northern Iran to begin in early 2026
TEHRAN (Realist English). Construction of the Rasht–Astara railway line — a critical segment of the International North–South Transport Corridor (INSTC)...
Read moreNorway suspends ethical investment rules to prevent $2.1tn oil fund from forced sell-off of U.S. tech giants
OSLO (Realist English). Norway has temporarily suspended its ethical investment framework to prevent its $2.1 trillion sovereign wealth fund —...
Read moreNetanyahu rejects safe passage for Hamas militants despite Trump’s ceasefire plan
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out any “safe exit” for around 200 Hamas fighters reportedly...
Read moreTanzania’s Samia Suluhu Hassan sworn in for second term after disputed landslide amid deadly unrest
DODOMA (Realist English). Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in on Monday for a second term, following a landslide...
Read moreAustralia to provide households three hours of free solar power daily from 2026
SYDNEY (Realist English). Australia will offer at least three hours of free solar power each day to households — including...
Read moreJapan reports record rise in school absenteeism and bullying cases for 12th consecutive year
TOKYO (Realist English). The number of Japanese elementary and junior high school students absent for 30 days or more hit...
Read more“Ashkharazhokhov” Movement Calls on Donald Trump to Free Christians from Baku Prisons and Ensure Access to Christian Shrines of Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). The "Ashkharazhokhov" Pan-Armenian Movement has appealed to US President Donald Trump, calling on him to secure the...
Read moreGeorgia’s ruling party seeks to ban three main opposition groups, triggering outcry in Europe
TBILISI (Realist English). Georgia’s ruling party Georgian Dream has filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court seeking to ban three...
Read moreTrump says Nvidia’s most advanced AI chips will be reserved for U.S. companies, barred from China
WASHINGTON (Realist English). U.S. President Donald Trump has declared that Nvidia’s most advanced artificial intelligence chips will be reserved exclusively...
Read moreOPEC+ halts planned output hikes amid fears of oil glut in early 2026
VIENNA (Realist English). The OPEC+ alliance has decided to pause its oil production increases in the first quarter of 2026,...
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“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...
“The main Russophobes are the enemies of communists”: Dmitry Novikov responds to attacks on the Communist Party
MOSCOW (Realist English). In an article published in the newspaper Soviet Russia on April 4, 2026, Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee...
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,...
US and Iran agree two-week ceasefire as Strait of Hormuz reopens
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States and Iran have agreed to a two-week ceasefire, with U.S. President Donald Trump suspending...
“Playing the Kurdish card isn’t working for the CIA and Mossad”: expert on the position of Kurds amid the war in Iran
MOSCOW (Realist English). The war between the United States and Israel against Iran has not led to the activation of Kurdish...
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...
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