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Mishustin urges Russian electronics sector to “cut corners” for faster breakthroughs
SOCHI (Realist English). Russia’s electronics industry should not simply follow the technological path of global leaders but seek unconventional solutions...
Digital sovereignty key to security, Russian regulator insists amid platform defiance
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia’s federal media and telecom regulator Roskomnadzor (RKN) says platforms deleted more than 425,000 pieces of prohibited...
Leaked documents reveal Russia and Vietnam using oil profits to bypass sanctions for arms deals
HANOI (Realist English). Russia and Vietnam have devised a concealed system for settling arms contracts that bypasses Western financial sanctions,...
Kozak’s exit cements Kiriyenko’s dominance inside Kremlin power structure
MOSCOW (Realist English). Dmitry Kozak, deputy chief of staff of the Russian presidential administration and one of Vladimir Putin’s closest...
United Russia dominates regional elections across 81 Russian regions
MOSCOW (Realist English). Elections at multiple levels were held across 81 regions of the Russian Federation over three days of...
Russian satellite’s abnormal behaviour fuels global race for military space dominance
MOSCOW (Realist English). A Russian military satellite launched this summer has exhibited abnormal and potentially threatening behaviour, edging close to...
Russia’s top judicial body backs Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov to lead Supreme Court
MOSCOW (Realist English). The Higher Qualification Board of Judges (HQCJ) has recommended Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov for the post of...
Russia turns back to barter as financial channels narrow
MOSCOW (Realist English). For the first time since the 1990s, barter has re-emerged in Russia’s foreign trade, with companies exchanging...
Putin inaugurates Russia’s National Space Center in Moscow
MOSCOW (Realist English). President Vladimir Putin on Saturday took part in the official opening of the National Space Center, a...
“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...
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,...
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...
Alexander Cheryomin: Karabakh is an ancient Armenian land
MOSCOW (Realist English). If one looks at the history of Yerevan, founded in 782 BC, and studies its architectural monuments, it...
The elimination of El Mencho will not stop the drug business — the threads lead to the corridors of US power
MEXICO CITY (Realist English). Mexico has been engulfed in bloody clashes for several days. After the elimination of drug lord El...
Ceasefire with Iran will not lead to peace — “neither war nor peace” will begin
MOSCOW (Realist English). In his article for Realist English, Stanislav Ivanov, a leading researcher at IMEMO RAS and Candidate of Historical...
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