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Kremlin aide Ushakov: Putin and Trump had “trust-based” discussion focused on ending the Ukrainian crisis
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump held a two-and-a-half-hour phone call on Wednesday, marking...
Trump holds talks with Putin ahead of Zelensky meeting amid debate over new weapons for Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Realist English). President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of a...
Putin, Syrian regime chief Sharaa discuss future of Russia–Syria ties in Moscow
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Ahmed al-Sharaa, the pro-Turkish head of the Syrian regime, to discuss...
Irkutsk governor Igor Kobzev to lead regional government, pledges “personal responsibility” for economic growth and social stability
IRKUTSK (Realist English). Governor Igor Kobzev announced on October 15 during the 28th session of the Irkutsk Regional Legislative Assembly...
Russia’s youngest governor restructures administration, abolishes adviser positions in Samara region
SAMARA (Realist English). Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, Russia’s youngest regional governor at 36, has announced the elimination of all official adviser positions...
Putin attends Russia–Central Asia summit in Dushanbe
DUSHANBE (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the second Russia–Central Asia summit in the Tajik capital on Wednesday, where...
Putin holds military briefing in St. Petersburg on progress of special operation
ST. PETERSBURG (Realist English). During a working trip to Russia’s Northwestern Federal District, President Vladimir Putin chaired a high-level meeting...
Putin and Patrushev review progress on Russia’s environmental and agricultural programs
MOSCOW (Realist English). President Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev on Monday to discuss...
Putin links Ukraine conflict to geopolitics at Valdai forum
SOCHI (Realist English). —Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the plenary session of the XXII annual meeting of the Valdai International...
“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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