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Turkey finds new route to pay for Russian gas as U.S. sanctions waiver expires
ANKARA (Realist English). Turkey has secured a workaround to continue paying for its multi-billion-dollar natural gas imports from Russia, following...
Russian PM discusses summer travel, Eastern rail expansion, and coal logistics with RZD chief
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin held a working meeting on May 23 with Oleg Belozerov, CEO and...
German Chancellor backs EU ban on Nord Stream to block reactivation efforts
BERLIN (Realist English). German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is “actively” supporting a proposed European Union ban on the Nord Stream gas...
Russia to hold 2026 Duma elections in new regions with international observers invited
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has approved a new electoral map that, for the first time, includes...
Lavrov in Yerevan: Russia to maintain military and humanitarian presence in Armenia
YEREVAN (Realist English). During high-level talks in Yerevan on May 21, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reaffirmed Moscow’s commitment to...
Russia launches migrant surveillance pilot in Moscow region with biometric tracking
MOSCOW (Realist English). The Russian State Duma has approved a new law introducing an experimental surveillance system for migrants in...
Moscow ready for peace talks with Kyiv as Trump calls for immediate negotiations
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that Moscow is ready to work with Ukraine on a memorandum...
Trump reveals ‘tough talk’ with Zelensky, promises upcoming meeting with Putin
WASHINGTON (Realist English). In a televised interview with Fox News, U.S. President Donald Trump said he had a “very tough...
Prisoner exchange agreed in Istanbul talks, no ceasefire deal reached
ISTANBUL (Realist English). On May 16 Russia and the so-called Ukrainian government held their first face-to-face negotiations in three years....
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...
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...
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...
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