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Russia’s Economy
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...
Mishustin meets KEAZ leadership to discuss progress toward technological sovereignty
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin held a working meeting with Andrey Kanunnikov, chairman of the strategic committee...
Russia reports narrowing budget deficit despite falling oil revenues
Russia’s Ministry of Finance has reported a significant year-on-year reduction in the federal budget deficit for the first quarter of...
Bastrykin talks about nationalization, and the Ministry of Finance proposes privatization
ST. PETERSBURG (Realist English). Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin spoke at the session "Criminal Responsibility of...
Who and why is slowing down the adoption of the law on digital rubles?
MOSCOW (Realist English). The financial authorities of Russia have been shelving this issue since 2019. All this time, the populist...
Treasury loan — a replacement of Russia’s “financial foundation”
MOSCOW (Realist English). In three years, the Russian financial system has irrevocably transformed into the cash and settlement structure of...
Dependence of the Russian fuel and energy sector on import is growing
MOSCOW (Realist English). The materials of the Lomonosov readings, which took place at the beginning of April this year are...
Russia has loosened the IMF’s financial collar
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russia has done something that is impossible within the framework of the pro—Western financial world order -...
The pressure of the state on corporations is increasing
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested "to think about the publication of non-financial reporting for large enterprises."...
“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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