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Russian Orthodox Church Synod approves leadership changes and structural reforms
MOSCOW (Realist English). The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church approved a series of leadership appointments, administrative reforms and...
U.S. grants temporary waiver for purchases of Russian oil amid Middle East energy shock
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States has issued a 30-day waiver allowing countries to purchase Russian oil and petroleum products...
Russia allows compensation for tourists affected by Middle East airspace closures
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a government decree allowing tourists who planned trips to the...
Missile strike on Bryansk leaves six dead and dozens injured
BRYANSK (Realist English). Six people were killed and 42 injured in a missile strike on the Russian city of Bryansk,...
Putin meets DPR head Pushilin to discuss reconstruction and infrastructure
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in the Kremlin on Tuesday with Denis Pushilin, the head...
Putin and Trump discuss Iran conflict and Ukraine in phone call
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump held a phone conversation on Monday evening to...
Putin warns Middle East conflict is disrupting global energy markets
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in the Kremlin on March 9 with senior officials and...
Russia sets target for agro-industry to switch to domestic software by 2030
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia has set a goal for at least 80% of companies and enterprises in the country’s agricultural...
Putin speaks with Iran’s president amid escalating regional war
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday, expressing condolences...
“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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