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Moscow mayor under pressure as federal elites challenge his influence
MOSCOW (Realist News Agency). Prominent Russian political analyst Dmitry Fetisov believes that Sergey Sobyanin, the long-serving mayor of Moscow, is...
How has the Russian elite changed during the year of the SMO
MOSCOW (Realist English). In the year of the special operation, the Russian elites has become much more homogeneous ideologically, because...
After the start of the SMO, only two parties have remained in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). After the start of the special military operation on the territory of the former Ukraine, two "parties"...
In Russia, the collapse of the real estate market is predicted
MOSCOW (Realist English). In Russia, about two million apartments are unlikely to find buyers. Sales in new buildings hovered at...
Putin’s dependence on the Russian military has increased: political scientists
MOSCOW (Realist English). Political scientist Tatiana Stanovaya told in her telegram channel about three features of the political situation in...
Sergey Baburin: They have been destroying the Soviet Union from the inside since 1986
MOSCOW (Realist English). Mikhail Gorbachev and his entourage were behind the collapse of the Soviet Union and the overthrow of...
More than 15 thousand millionaires may leave Russia in 2022
LONDON (Realist English). This year, more than 15 thousand millionaires may leave Russia due to the special operation in the...
Sanctions became the pretext, not the reason for Alekperov’s resignation
MOSCOW (Realist English). The founder of Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov, said that he had decided to resign from the post of...
Russia’s financial elite is thinking about their foreign capital, not military victory
ST. PETERSBURG (Realist English). In the period of crises in Russia, the problem of the separation of military and civilian...
“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...
Hezbollah excluded from the ceasefire: Lapshin explains why Iran agreed to the pause
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin has assessed the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, calling it a...
“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...
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...
“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...
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