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Xi Jinping removes top general and eight senior PLA commanders in sweeping military purge
BEIJING (Realist English). Chinese President Xi Jinping has dismissed General He Weidong, the second-highest-ranking officer in the People’s Liberation Army...
Read moreColonel Michael Randrianirina sworn in as Madagascar’s new president after military takeover
ANTANANARIVO (Realist English). Until a few days ago, few in Madagascar had heard of Colonel Michael Randrianirina, head of the...
Read moreBernard Arnault’s fortune jumps $19 billion as LVMH shares surge after strong earnings
PARIS (Realist English). French luxury magnate Bernard Arnault, chairman and CEO of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, saw his net...
Read moreKremlin aide Ushakov: Putin and Trump had “trust-based” discussion focused on ending the Ukrainian crisis
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump held a two-and-a-half-hour phone call on Wednesday, marking...
Read moreTrump holds talks with Putin ahead of Zelensky meeting amid debate over new weapons for Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of a...
Read moreUS Southern Command chief to retire amid tensions over legality of Caribbean strikes
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The head of US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), Admiral Alvin Holsey, will retire at the end of 2025...
Read morePope Leo XIV calls for moral renewal and global unity to end hunger at FAO anniversary in Rome
ROME (Realist English). Pope Leo XIV visited the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome on...
Read moreTrump confirms CIA covert operations in Venezuela, escalating U.S. campaign against Maduro
WASHINGTON (Realist English). U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he had authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct...
Read moreJapan’s opposition leaders fail to agree on joint candidate as ruling party struggles to retain power
TOKYO (Realist English). Japan’s three main opposition leaders met in Tokyo on Wednesday to discuss a unified strategy for selecting...
Read moreEurope urged to overhaul arms procurement as drone warfare accelerates, says new Stark CEO
BERLIN (Realist English). Europe must radically rethink its defense procurement systems to keep pace with the rapid evolution of drone...
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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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