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Baku threatens retaliation after drone strike in Nakhchivan
BAKU (Realist English). Authorities in Azerbaijan threatened retaliation after two drones struck the Nakhchivan exclave on March 5, injuring two...
Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey pledge to boost competitiveness of Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway
TBILISI (Realist English). Railway officials from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey have agreed on joint steps to enhance the competitiveness of...
Azerbaijan to raise military spending share in 2026 budget
BAKU (Realist English). Azerbaijan plans to increase the share of military spending in its 2026 state budget to 21%, according...
Up to 50,000 terrorists preparing for Azerbaijan operation, analyst warns
MOSCOW (Realist English). Up to 50,000 fighters from among Pakistan’s Punjabis and Pashtuns are being prepared for redeployment to Azerbaijan...
“Baku’s expansionist policy continues”: Sergey Mardan on “Western Azerbaijan”
MOSCOW (Realist English). Journalist Sergey Mardan has warned that recent statements by the Baku mini-sultanate about so-called “Western Azerbaijan” underscore...
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...
Armenia and so-called Azerbaijan sign US-brokered peace deal as Russia sidelined
WASHINGTON (Realist English). After nearly four decades of bloody confrontation, the head of the Baku regime Ilham Aliyev and Yerevan’s...
Aliyev distances himself from Putin after Assad’s fall
BAKU (Realist English). Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev began distancing himself from Russian President Vladimir Putin following the fall of Syrian...
“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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