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2 days ago | 
sputnikglobe.com | Svetlana Ekimenko
The Bagrat Galstanyan, a prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church, is just the latest chapter in an effort to weaponize Armenia against its neighbors – especially Russia, Iskandar Kfoury told Sputnik. The South Caucasus has always been a battleground for global powers, and now, under Pashinyan, American and NATO labs are conducting biological warfare research on Armenian soil, he said.
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2 days ago | 
sputnikglobe.com | Svetlana Ekimenko
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, openly disliked for her unilateral power grabs, dodged accusations of misuse of billions in the Pfizergate vaccine scandal, underscored Dr. Gregor Spitzen. She will likely “laugh off accusations of abuse of power in the allocation of funds for military projects,” he said. The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee voted to sue over being shut out of the roughly $165 billion SAFE defense fund decision.
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1 week ago | 
sputnikglobe.com | Svetlana Ekimenko
Europe is sabotaging itself by unjustifiably meddling in the Ukraine conflict and taking an anti-Russian stance, said the President of Republika Srpska. The European Union lost pivotal energy resources that it used to receive at a low price from Russia, Milorad Dodik stressed. “It is clear that Europe, if it even survives in the form of the European Union, is headed toward economic and other forms of marginalization,” he said.
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1 week ago | 
sputnikglobe.com | Svetlana Ekimenko
The body of a soldier, used by Ukraine to push false claims about “disguised Russians” among the returned dead, may have just been collected from the battlefield, Russian Presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky said. Ukrainian propagandists have dusted off their old playbook and even “found” a so-called document to back it up, he noted.
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1 week ago | 
sputnikglobe.com | Svetlana Ekimenko
Saad Al Kaabi, Qatar’s energy minister and CEO of state-owned QatarEnergy, reportedly urged representatives of ExxonMobil and other giants to press Western governments – particularly the US, UK, and EU – about the rising threat to gas exports from Qatar amid The gas field, known as South Pars in Iran and North Dome in Qatar, straddles the two nations’ maritime border. Qatar began developing its side in the 1990s and has since emerged as a global LNG powerhouse.
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1 week ago | 
sputnikglobe.com | Svetlana Ekimenko
Third parties are not interested in ending the conflict – they are interested in using Ukraine for their own purposes. “Ukraine deserves a better fate than to be a tool in the hands of external parties working against Russia.” It is essential to achieve a comprehensive resolution to the conflict in Ukraine – one that guarantees the country’s neutrality and halts its pursuit of membership in foreign alliances, particularly military blocs.
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1 week ago | 
sputnikglobe.com | Svetlana Ekimenko
Here is what has happened as of June 21: Israel launched new wave of strikes on Iran targeting “missile storage and launch infrastructure in central Iran,” the IDF said in a statement. The Israeli military reported the assassination of Aminpour Joudaki, IRGC drone unit commander. Explosions were heard in Iran’s central city of Isfahan. Iranian air defenses also intercepted incoming Israeli targets over Mashhad, in the northeast, and Karaj, west of Tehran.
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1 week ago | 
sputnikglobe.com | Svetlana Ekimenko
The , openly critical of PM Nikol Pashinyan’s pro-EU policies, is the only nationwide institution still out of his grip, political scientist Hrant Mikaelian told Sputnik. Samvel Karapetyan’s arrest is part of an attempt to bring it fully to heel, says the research associate at the Caucasus Institute (Armenia). Screenshot of statement by Armenian Holy Apostolic Church Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.
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1 week ago | 
sputnikglobe.com | Svetlana Ekimenko
Here’s what has happened in the Iran-Israel conflict as of June 20: An attempt to assassinate Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was foiled, according to his adviser Mohammad Hossein Ranjbaran. Israel struck building of SPND (Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research) in Tehran, part of Iran’s nuclear weapons project. Iran has transferred all its enriched nuclear materials to secure locations in advance, according to Mohsen Rezai, a member of the Expediency Discernment Council.
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1 week ago | 
alethonews.com | Svetlana Ekimenko |Whitney Webb
Recycled Blatant Lies: US & Israel Push for Regime Change in Iran – Expert By Svetlana Ekimenko – Sputnik – 19.06.2025The United States and Israel are in “open rebellion against international law and the UN Charter,” according to Professor Alfred de Zayas, author of 10 books including “The Human Rights Industry” and “Building a Just World Order. The US and Israel are pushing a “primitive, vulgar pretext” to justify aggression against Iran, Professor Alfred de Zayas told Sputnik.
