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Russia’s Domestic Policy
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...
Leonid Slutsky re-elected as LDPR leader at party’s 37th congress
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leonid Slutsky was re-elected chairman of Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) during the party’s 37th congress on...
Putin meets newly elected regional leaders, sets priorities for national projects and veteran integration
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin held a videoconference on September 26 with 21 regional leaders elected in the...
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...
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...
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...
CEC chief Pamfilova: Western pressure won’t derail Russia’s elections
MOSCOW (Realist English). On September 11, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) opened its official information center ahead of the country’s...
Russian lawmaker opposes proposal to ban messenger calls, accuses mobile operators of pursuing monopoly
MOSCOW (Realist English). Sergey Mironov, leader of the A Just Russia – For Truth party and head of its State...
Lula warns US action against Venezuela would trigger humanitarian disaster
FOZ DO IGUAÇU (Realist English). Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has warned that any armed intervention in Venezuela...
Putin says Russia has no plans for new military operations, blames West for tensions
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Moscow is not planning any new special military operations,...
Maduro rejects Trump’s claims over Venezuelan oil and land, accuses US of colonial ambitions
CARACAS (Realist English). Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has said recent remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump about “reclaiming” Venezuelan land...
Trump orders blockade of sanctioned oil tankers to and from Venezuela
WASHINGTON (Realist English). U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered a “total and complete blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers...
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...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
Putin, Trump and Zelensky: is a trilateral meeting necessary?
MOSCOW (Realist English). Although more than a week has passed since the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S....
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