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Lavrov warns of global consequences from Middle East escalation
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that the escalating conflict in the Middle East could have serious...
Iran’s security chief accuses Trump of dragging U.S. into war
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s top security official accused US President Donald Trump of leading the United States into an unjust...
Trump says US-Israeli strikes have crippled Iran’s military
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump said Tuesday that joint US-Israeli strikes had severely weakened Iran’s military capabilities, claiming the...
Vance says Iran nuclear talks collapsed before launch of Operation Epic Fury
WASHINGTON (Realist English). Vice President JD Vance said Monday that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program broke down after...
Lebanon bans Hezbollah’s military activities after rocket fire triggers deadly Israeli strikes
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Lebanese government on Monday announced an immediate and comprehensive ban on Hezbollah’s military and security operations,...
Saudi Arabia urges Gulf restraint after US-Israeli strikes on Iran
RIYADH (Realist English). Senior Saudi officials have expressed frustration over the scale and timing of US and Israeli strikes on...
European gas prices jump after Qatar halts LNG output amid Middle East escalation
AMSTERDAM (Realist English). European natural gas prices surged on Monday as intensifying conflict in the Middle East and a halt...
Trump signals possible four-week military campaign in Iran
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump indicated on Sunday that the United States anticipates a military campaign in Iran could...
Ayatollah Alireza Arafi appointed to Iran’s interim leadership council
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran has appointed Ayatollah Alireza Arafi to its interim leadership council, the body now responsible for governing...
“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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