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76% of Armenian citizens live in poverty — World Bank
YEREVAN (Realist English). Official data from the Statistical Committee of Armenia record a gradual decline in poverty levels. In 2024, it...
Inequality on opposite sides of the border: in Israel 880 thousand children live in poverty, while in Iran sanctions have destroyed the middle class
TEL AVIV / TEHRAN (Realist English). While Israel and Iran are in a state of military confrontation, the social systems of...
“Azerbaijan’s authorities feast, the people starve”: opposition politician Ali Kerimli from prison cell on social collapse and silenced protest
BAKU (Realist English). While official propaganda in Azerbaijan continues to report on successes and economic growth, voices from those who find...
US shows higher poverty despite higher incomes, research says
LONDON (Realist English). A new study suggests that average poverty is significantly higher in the United States than in major...
The IMF will continue to strengthen solidarity to reduce global inequality
WASHINGTON (Realist English). IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva named three priority areas of activity to improve short- and medium-term growth...
500 thousand people in Armenia suffer from hunger: UN
YEREVAN (Realist English). According to the "Hunger Map" of the UN World Food Program, 500 thousand people in Armenia are...
More than 1.2 billion people in the world live in extreme poverty — UN
NEW YORK (Realist English). Approximately 1.2 billion people in the world live in conditions of "multidimensional poverty". This means that...
Dmitry Novikov on his path to politics, the intelligentsia, the left movement, and why US aggression against Iran is a threat to Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Dmitry Novikov, Deputy Chairman of the CPRF Central Committee and First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma...
“We Are Witnessing the Messianic Footsteps”: Avigdor Eskin on Israel’s War with Iran
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli public figure and publicist Avigdor Eskin argues that we live in an era of “incredible acceleration,” when...
“Israel is not fighting the Iranian people, but the regime”: Alexander Tsinker on the goals of the operation against Iran
TEL AVIV (Realist English). The war in the Middle East, which began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, has entered its fifth...
“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...
Germany, Poland, France and Britain: who will replace America in Europe
NEW YORK (Realist English). Analysts Ethan Kapstein and Jonathan Caverley argue in an article for the American analytical journal Foreign Affairs...
Sumerian and Armenian are the same language: Sumerologist Armen Davtyan
YEREVAN (Realist English). Armen Davtyan — a renowned Armenian linguist, Sumerologist and poet. He is the author of the “Armenian-Sumerian Dictionary”...
New economic course of Abkhazia and South Ossetia: forums as drivers of development and investment attraction
MOSCOW (Realist English). Political scientist Maxim Vaskov is an expert who for many years has personally participated in establishing and strengthening...
China’s Game of Go without rules: How the Celestial Empire “strangles in its embrace” the countries of Latin America and expands its influence in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Doctor of Political Sciences, State Counselor of the Russian Federation First Class Tatiana Poloskova, in an authorial...
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