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Digital sovereignty key to security, Russian regulator insists amid platform defiance
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia’s federal media and telecom regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN) says platforms deleted more than 425,000 pieces of prohibited...
VKontakte moves to the Russian jurisdiction
MOSCOW (Realist English). VKontakte (VK Company Limited (VK) is moving to the Russian jurisdiction from the Virgin Islands (UK). A...
Pope Francis: Digital media is a powerful tool for promoting peace
VATICAN (Realist English). Pope Francis called for promoting peace in the digital environment, which often becomes a place of "toxicity,...
Elon Musk is killing Twitter in the interests of the Republican Party
WASHINGTON (Realist English). American billionaire Elon Musk has twice said this week that he plans to vote for Republicans in...
Strait of Hormuz disruption sends shockwaves through global trade
LONDON (Realist English). Escalating military tensions around the Strait of Hormuz are rapidly disrupting global shipping and energy markets, as...
Iran war puts Vice President JD Vance in difficult political position
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The ongoing war with Iran has placed US Vice President JD Vance in a politically sensitive position,...
Hormuz crisis reshapes global tanker market as shipping routes collapse
LONDON (Realist English). The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz following the escalation of the Iran war has triggered...
Iran’s new leader Mojtaba Khamenei calls for unity and vows continued resistance
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s newly appointed Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei delivered his first public address...
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...
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...
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