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Russia’s Economy
Russia has recognized critical dependence of metallurgy on imported equipment
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian metallurgists are critically dependent on foreign key equipment and, due to sanctions, will be forced to...
Russia and China increased trade by 29%
BEIJING (Realist English). Chinese exports to Russia snapped four months of declines and grew robustly in July, while Russian shipments...
The Russian government has approved a plan for the development of the Northern Sea Route until 2035
MOSCOW (Realist English). Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order approving the plan for the development of the Northern Sea...
France has frozen €1.2 billion of Russian assets
PARIS (Realist English). The total amount of Russian-related assets frozen in connection with the anti-Russian sanctions imposed in France tentatively...
Putin needs Europe more than vice versa: Fortune
MOSCOW (Realist English). Gas prices in Europe have exceeded $2000/thousand cubic meters in anticipation of stopping another engine on the...
Russia’s oil export revenues exceeded $20 billion in June
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian oil exports in June fell by 250 kb/d m-o-m to 7.4 mb/d, the lowest since August...
Russia’s economy is doing much better than expected: JPMorgan
MOSCOW (Realist English). The Russian economy's downturn this year will be much milder than originally expected, with gross domestic product...
German exports to Russia rose, despite sanctions
BERLIN (Realist English). Despite Western sanctions and a mass exit of companies from Russia, by the end of May, export...
China buys Russian coal at steep discounts
BEIJING (Realist English). Russia’s coal shipments to China have been rising even though overall shipments to China have declined, CNBC...
Russia remains EU’s fourth-largest gas supplier despite diversification push
BRUSSELS (Realist English). Russia remained the European Union’s fourth-largest supplier of natural gas in 2025, exporting almost 38bn cubic metres...
From voice of support to figurehead: Pahlavi seeks to steer Iran’s uprising
TEHRAN (Realist English). Protests across Iran entered their third week on Sunday amid a markedly harsher crackdown by the authorities,...
Venezuela’s real power lies beyond the presidency after Maduro’s arrest
CARACAS (Realist English). A day after U.S. special forces swept into the Venezuelan capital and detained former president Nicolas Maduro,...
Khamenei says Iran will not retreat in face of foreign-backed unrest
TEHRAN (Realist English). Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said on Friday that the Islamic Republic would stand firm...
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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