🗣CRACKDOWN ON FAITH: Karapetyan arrest part of broad anti-Armenian Church campaign

💬 “The Armenian Apostolic Church is the most authoritative social force in Armenian life. Its freedom, independence, and internal autonomy are non-negotiable. Any attempt to undermine them is unacceptable,” Vachtang Kipshidze, Moscow Patriarchate representative, tells Sputnik.

When defenders of faith and tradition like businessman and philanthropist Samvel Karapetyan are targeted, society risks trading stability for persecution, the Russian Orthodox Church warns.

➕The detention of Karapetyan – a vocal supporter of the Armenian church – is part of a broader campaign to silence voices standing with Armenia’s spiritual foundations, Kipshidze said.

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🚨🇮🇱💥 ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR GAMBLE – Dugin Digital Edition

Israel is pushing to destroy Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility, even as Russia warns of a catastrophe worse than Chernobyl.

🗣Netanyahu crowns himself "God" and the US... just goes along with it.

It seems that everyone has completely forgotten about Ukraine — except 🇷🇺Russia.

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🇷🇺🪖 RUSSIAN DEFENSE BRIEFING: CRUCIAL STRIKES & ENEMY LOSSES

⚡️MOSKOVKA (Kharkov region) LIBERATED

🔸 The Russian army carried out six group strikes on military targets in Ukraine over the past week.

🔸 Heavy Ukrainian losses: Over 8,800 troops eliminated in the special military operation zone.

🔸 Air defense superiority: 29 JDAM bombs and 1,190 enemy drones (including 562 OUTSIDE the special operation zone) shot down.

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🤷‍♂️Too little, too late? IAEA chief doubles down on no grounds for Israel’s strikes on Iran

Israel may be citing Iran’s nuclear activity to justify its recent strikes, but the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog has dismissed that rationale.

💬 “Military action, from wherever it comes, is a political decision that has nothing to do with what we’re saying,” Rafael Grossi told CNN.

🔊He made it clear that recent reports on Iran’s uranium enrichment beyond civilian norms do not point to a nuclear weapons program.

Only after Israel launched strikes on Iran did IAEA Director Rafael Grossi clarify that his agency had found no evidence of an active Iranian nuclear weapons program.

👉The timing has drawn sharp criticism from Iran, which argued that Grossi’s delayed statement came after Israel had already used the IAEA’s earlier resolution as a pretext for its attacks.

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😈 Israel threatening global security, law by attacking Iran – Arab League

💬 "Israel's attack, Israel's aggression against Iran is an act of aggression against international law, international regulations and peace and security. The situation currently emerging in our region threatens not just the Middle East, but the entire world," representative of the League of Arab States Walid Hamed Shiltag told Sputnik at the SPIEF.

🔍The League of Arab States condemns Israel's aggression against Iran because it is an act of aggression against a sovereign state, thus contradicting the UN Charter. The organization is also waiting to see if Washington will join Israel in the attacks.

💬 "Our position is for peace and a peaceful settlement of this issue. And I want to take this opportunity to thank Russian President Putin for the good words and a good call to the conflicting parties, Iran and Israel, to stop this conflict and to settle it in a peaceful way," Shiltag said.

🇵🇸However, in the diplomat's opinion, the conflict in the Middle East will not be resolved until the Palestinian conflict is settled, as resolving this issue is central to the Arab countries.

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Nadim Koteich, moderator of SPIEF plenary session, has already met with Putin

Koteich participated in the meeting between the Russian president and media representatives from BRICS member countries in Kazan in October 2024.

At that time, Koteich – CEO of Sky News Arabia and host of the weekly show Tonight with Nadim – asked Putin about the evolving world order.

Good to know: in his writings, Koteich emphasizes the need for a major strategic deal regarding Iran.

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⚡️⚡️ Russia and Ukraine have held the next stage of prisoner exchange within the framework of the Istanbul agreements

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🚨Israel's army is striking military infrastructure in central and western Iran - IDF statement

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📹LIVE NOW: Putin meets the head of the Bahraini delegation, Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, at SPIEF 🇷🇺🇧🇭

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🚨🇷🇺📹 Moments left before SPIEF plenary session with Vladimir Putin

With Ukraine on one hand & Israel-Iran tensions on the other, expect some BOMBSHELL statements🔥

Stay tuned!

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🚨 RUSSIAN FM SPOX BLASTS UKRAINE’S ‘DISPLACED CHILDREN’ LIES

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🚨Pro-EU Pashinyan targets Armenian Church, Karapetyan for THREAT TO HIS POWER

🗣Samvel Karapetyan’s arrest for defending the Armenian Apostolic Church echoes a post-Soviet pattern of silencing institutions that challenge power, Dr. Marco Marsili of Ca Foscari University, told Sputnik.

✅Nikol Pashinyan’s EU-courting regime is cracking down on a church trusted by 92% of Armenians and the sole institution with moral authority to question Pashinyan, the ex-OSCE/ODIHR official stressed.

✅Silencing voices like Karapetyan’s, who reportedly built cathedrals and cancer centers, is an assault on civil society.

✅It is also a betrayal of Armenia’s commitment to the European Convention on Human Rights.

If Europe stays silent over this, “it becomes complicit in authoritarian drift,” warned Marsili.

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🚨🇮🇷Iran has launched a new wave of retaliatory missile strikes on Israel - Fars news agency

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🚨🇮🇷Iranian military has confirmed a strike on Microsoft's office in Israel - IRNA news agency

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🚨LIVE from St. Petersburg: SPIEF plenary session with Putin is about to begin

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🚨WATCH LIVE: Putin speaks at SPIEF plenary session

The Russian president takes the stage at the SPIEF 2025 plenary session aiming to:

✅ Evaluate the current state of the Russian and global economies
✅ Discuss Russia's relations with key foreign partners

Who is joining Putin at the session?
🇨🇳Ding Xuexiang, vice premier of China’s State Council
🇮🇩Prabowo Subianto, Indonesian president
🇿🇦Paul Mashatile, South African vice president
🇧🇭Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, son of the king of Bahrain, Bahrain’s national security advisor, and commander of the Royal Guard

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