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Pashinyan turns to repression and insults against refugees: Armenia two weeks before elections
YEREVAN (Realist English). Two weeks before the parliamentary elections on June 7, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has resorted to open suppression...
Cancer in Armenia: 43% growth in four years and 21% of all deaths
YEREVAN (Realist English). Oncology has become the second leading cause of death in Armenia, claiming the lives of 21% of all...
Cheap imports from Ankara: Turkish goods strangling Armenia’s economy
YEREVAN (Realist English). On 13 May, Turkish authorities decided to lift long-standing restrictions on bilateral trade with Armenia. Goods moving...
The Golden Constellation of Victory: How Dozens of Armenian Heroes Changed the Course of the Great Patriotic War
YEREVAN (Realist English). The title of Hero of the Soviet Union — the highest distinction of the USSR — was awarded...
Yerevan again silent on 23 prisoners, EU pledges €2.5bn, and Aliyev threatens revenge
YEREVAN (Realist English). On May 4-5, Yerevan hosted the first-ever Armenia–European Union summit – the culmination of Yerevan's rapprochement with the...
The enemy is already in the capital: Pashinyan welcomes Azerbaijani delegation to Yerevan as Baku prepares new aggression
YEREVAN (Realist English). On 29 April, an Azerbaijani delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister of the regime Shahin Mustafayev arrived in...
Armenian Genocide: 111 years of tragedy and memory of 1.5 million victims
YEREVAN (Realist English). On April 24, 2026, the Armenian people marked the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman...
ECHR orders Baku to disclose data on torture of Armenian political prisoners
BAKU (Realist English). The Baku regime continues to cynically flout international law, illegally holding dozens of Armenian political prisoners. Despite the...
Parliamentary elections in Armenia: repression, insults to the opposition and a new constitution ‘for Baku’
YEREVAN (Realist English). The past week in Armenia has been marked by a sharp increase in both the foreign policy activity...
Israel prepares strike on Iran: leak of uranium capture plan causes scandal in Knesset
TEHRAN (Realist English). The diplomatic process between the United States and Iran has entered its final stage, but military rhetoric on...
China and Kazakhstan launch grain hub
BEIJING (Realist English). China and Kazakhstan have agreed to establish a joint grain trading platform aimed at strengthening food security...
Putin and Xi Shape a New Architecture of Cooperation
BEIJING (Realist English). Russia and China have agreed to further strengthen their comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation, expand economic ties,...
“Restrictions Alone Are Not Enough — Children Need to Be Engaged”: Paata Amonashvili on Meaningful Alternatives to Gadgets
TBILISI (Realist English). Restrictions alone are not enough to overcome children’s dependence on gadgets — children must be offered meaningful...
Turkey and Israel on the verge of direct confrontation
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS and Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov analyzes the causes and consequences...
NATO Anchors at Hormuz? IRGC Warns of Retaliation
TEHRAN (Realist English). On May 20, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued an uncompromising statement: if the United States undertakes...
Replacing Baathists with Islamists: why Kurds and other minorities in Syria have not seen equality
HASAKAH (Realist English). The overthrow of Bashar al‑Assad and the rise to power in Damascus of radical Islamist groups has not...
Russia seeks its place in China’s new transport corridor
MOSCOW (Realist English). Ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s official visit to Beijing, experts are increasingly discussing the hidden contradictions...
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