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Putin and Sobyanin discuss Moscow’s growth: investment, metro expansion and urban security
MOSCOW (Realist English). President Vladimir Putin met with Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin to assess the city’s socio-economic progress and outline...
Read morePutin: Without population growth, Russia cannot hold its territory
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are at risk unless...
Read morePutin: Restraint on nuclear response prevented global catastrophe
MOSCOW (Realist English). President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia deliberately refrained from using nuclear weapons during the ongoing conflict...
Read moreKremlin puts Kiriyenko in charge of ties with Armenia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Sergey Kiriyenko, first deputy chief of staff to the Russian president, has been tasked with coordinating relations...
Read morePutin congratulates troops on defeating Ukrainian forces in Kursk region
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin received a report from the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed...
Read morePutin and Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff move closer on Ukraine
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held his fourth meeting in Moscow with Steve Witkoff, the special envoy appointed...
Read moreMoscow 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...
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Iran 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...
Iran 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...
Peace with Baku–Turkish occupiers is an illusion
YEREVAN (Realist English). No piece of paper and no external guarantees will ensure peace between Armenia and the Baku–Turkish occupiers,...
Trump narrows Fed chair shortlist to Hassett and Warsh
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Donald Trump has confirmed that Kevin Hassett and Kevin Warsh are the leading candidates to succeed Federal...
Peace with Baku–Turkish occupiers is an illusion
YEREVAN (Realist English). No piece of paper and no external guarantees will ensure peace between Armenia and the Baku–Turkish occupiers,...
“Russia is with you”: Moscow sends humanitarian aid to refugees from Artsakh
STEPANAKERT (Realist English). As part of the “Russia is with you” initiative, a decision has been made to deliver humanitarian...
More than protection: Inside the hidden power of Russia’s FSO
MOSCOW (Realist English). The Federal Protective Service of Russia (FSO) is surrounded by even more legends than the Federal Security...
Roman Starovoit and the collapse of a technocratic glossy dream
MOSCOW (Realist English). I can’t stop thinking about the story of Roman Starovoit. If you think about it, the former...
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