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Pakistan hosts talks to de-escalate Iran conflict
ISLAMABAD (Realist English). Regional powers have launched a coordinated diplomatic effort to push the United States and Iran toward direct...
Ukraine negotiations stall as Middle East war reshapes agenda
MOSCOW (Realist English). A senior Russian lawmaker has criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Saudi Arabia amid ongoing Iranian...
NATO plans multinational corps in Turkey to boost southern flank
ANKARA (Realist English). NATO is planning to establish a multinational corps in Turkey, as Ankara moves to strengthen its role...
Iran rejects US ceasefire plan, outlines five conditions
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran has rejected a U.S. proposal aimed at ending the ongoing conflict, insisting that any ceasefire will...
Turkey and Pakistan soften anti-Iran language in Riyadh talks
RIYADH (Realist English). Turkey and Pakistan resisted strong language condemning Iran during a meeting of Arab and Muslim foreign ministers...
Trump threatens strikes on Iran power plants over Hormuz
WASHINGTON (Realist English). U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants within 48 hours unless Tehran...
Riyadh and Cairo coordinate response to rising regional threats
JEDDAH (Realist English). Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Jeddah on Saturday to...
Global shipping disrupted as Hormuz crossings fall 95%
LONDON (Realist English). Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has fallen by approximately 95% since the start of the Iran...
Trump threatens to destroy Iran’s South Pars gas field
WASHINGTON (Realist English). US President Donald Trump threatened to “blow up the entirety” of Iran’s South Pars gas field if...
“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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