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U.S.–Iran backchannel reopens amid war
WASHINGTON (Realist English). A direct communication channel between U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has recently...
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...
Lavrov warns strikes on Iran undermine nuclear non-proliferation regime
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran has dealt a major blow...
Israeli official claims Iran’s new supreme leader injured after early strikes
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Iran’s newly appointed Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei may have been injured and is currently unable to fully...
Iran warns Ukraine over drone support as countries seek Kyiv’s expertise
KYIV (Realist English). Ukraine has received requests from 11 countries seeking assistance in countering Shahed-type drones amid the ongoing Iran...
Desalination plants hit as Iran war raises fears over Gulf water security
LONDON (Realist English). Iran and Bahrain have both reported damage to desalination facilities amid the ongoing US-Israeli war with Iran,...
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...
U.S. grants temporary waiver for purchases of Russian oil amid Middle East energy shock
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States has issued a 30-day waiver allowing countries to purchase Russian oil and petroleum products...
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...
“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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