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Moscow mayor under pressure as federal elites challenge his influence
MOSCOW (Realist News Agency). Prominent Russian political analyst Dmitry Fetisov believes that Sergey Sobyanin, the long-serving mayor of Moscow, is...
Read morePutin hosts Trump envoy in public talks, sidelines Kyiv
SAINT PETERSBURG (RealistEnglish). Steve Witkoff, a personal envoy of Donald Trump, held a high-level meeting with President Vladimir Putin in...
Read moreRussia reports narrowing budget deficit despite falling oil revenues
Russia’s Ministry of Finance has reported a significant year-on-year reduction in the federal budget deficit for the first quarter of...
Read moreHow has the Russian elite changed during the year of the SMO
MOSCOW (Realist English). In the year of the special operation, the Russian elites has become much more homogeneous ideologically, because...
Read moreRussia needs not an ideology, but a clear concept of the image of the future
MOSCOW (Realist English). The problem is that no one in high offices has any idea about the image of the...
Read moreBastrykin talks about nationalization, and the Ministry of Finance proposes privatization
ST. PETERSBURG (Realist English). Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin spoke at the session "Criminal Responsibility of...
Read moreWho and why is slowing down the adoption of the law on digital rubles?
MOSCOW (Realist English). The financial authorities of Russia have been shelving this issue since 2019. All this time, the populist...
Read moreVolodin: Russia’s strength шs in the consolidation of the society
MOSCOW (Realist English). Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin believes that the Kiev regime has become Washington's tool in...
Read moreTreasury loan — a replacement of Russia’s “financial foundation”
MOSCOW (Realist English). In three years, the Russian financial system has irrevocably transformed into the cash and settlement structure of...
Read moreAfter the start of the SMO, only two parties have remained in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). After the start of the special military operation on the territory of the former Ukraine, two "parties"...
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Russia remains EU’s fourth-largest gas supplier despite diversification push
BRUSSELS (Realist English). Russia remained the European Union’s fourth-largest supplier of natural gas in 2025, exporting almost 38bn cubic metres...
From voice of support to figurehead: Pahlavi seeks to steer Iran’s uprising
TEHRAN (Realist English). Protests across Iran entered their third week on Sunday amid a markedly harsher crackdown by the authorities,...
Venezuela’s real power lies beyond the presidency after Maduro’s arrest
CARACAS (Realist English). A day after U.S. special forces swept into the Venezuelan capital and detained former president Nicolas Maduro,...
Khamenei says Iran will not retreat in face of foreign-backed unrest
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Friday that the Islamic Republic would stand firm...
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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