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Towards The Arctic Ocean through the Kuril Islands

The Rising Sun over the Arctic Ocean There has been no time in modern history when political links between Moscow and Tokyo were friendly or partner-like. Since the end of WWII, the Southern Kuril Islands remain the key irritant to their bilateral relations. As a result, much of the potential for Russian-Japanese cooperation remains untapped, even as this cooperation gains ever more new facets, including the issue of the Arctic Ocean. What ...

15.04.2013

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In Search of a Japanese Deng Xiaoping

... who have met a total of fifteen times, evoke an atmosphere of the casual meetings during the time of the “great friendship between Boris and Ryu” (Boris Yeltsin and Ryutaro Hashimoto) in the late 1990s. Photo: RIA Novosti History of the Kuril Islands Dispute In contrast to other partners for Russia, it is, on the whole, rather difficult to find a figure in Japan who could participate in informal consultations with Russian leaders. Such consultations tend to be genuinely trusting and ...

09.04.2013

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