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Khamenei says Iran will not retreat in face of foreign-backed unrest
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Friday that the Islamic Republic would stand firm...
Iran says armed terror cells dismantled as unrest turns deadly
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iranian security and judicial authorities say they have dismantled several armed terror cells and arrested dozens of...
Iran faces internet disruptions as protests intensify amid economic crisis
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran experienced widespread disruptions to internet connectivity on Thursday as protests against economic hardship intensified across the...
Imprisoned Turkish opposition leader vows to challenge Erdogan from jail
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Former Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, has declared that his imprisonment...
Turkey elevates Africa as strategic priority amid intensifying global competition
ANKARA (Realist English). Turkey is placing Africa at the center of its strategic outlook as geopolitical competition on the continent...
Iran faces mounting internal unrest as U.S. pressure intensifies after Venezuela operation
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran is confronting a widening convergence of internal unrest and external pressure as protests linked to a...
Syria struggles to rebuild its army a year after Assad’s fall
DAMASCUS (Realist English). One year after the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government, Syria is still grappling with the complex task...
Yemen’s UAE-backed separatists announce plan for independence referendum
ADEN (Realist English). The Southern Transitional Council (STC), which is backed by the United Arab Emirates, announced on Friday that...
Trump and Iran trade threats as protests spread across the country
TEHRAN (Realist English). Donald Trump and senior Iranian officials exchanged sharp warnings on Friday as protests widened across parts of...
“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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