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Russian lawmaker says borders not subject to revision after Kishida's rema
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 12 (ANI/Sputnik): The Russian territory is indivisible, and the borders are not to be revised, Vladimir Dzhabarov, the first deputy chairman of the Russian upper chamber's foreign affairs committee, told Sputnik on Tuesday, commenting on Japanese Prime Minister Fumio
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Japanese Prime Minister Kishida says Japan's sovereignty extends to southe
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], October 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, during a debate in parliament, said his country's sovereignty extends, among other things, to the southern Kuril Islands.
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Japan lodges protest with Russia over naval drills on disputed Kuril Islan
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], June 24 (ANI/Sputnik): Tokyo has lodged a protest with Moscow via diplomatic channels over Russia's military drills in the waters of the Sea of Japan off the Sakhalin Island and the Southern Kuril Islands that Tokyo considers part of its Northern Territories, Japanese Chief Ca
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7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes off Russia's Kuril Islands
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Mar 25 (ANI): An earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale struck off Russia's Kuril Islands on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.
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Magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits Russia's Kuril Islands
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Kuril Islands [Russia], Jan 28 (Sputnik/ANI): A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck on Tuesday near the southern Kuril Islands, the Sakhalin branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Sputnik.
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Japanese tourists' first trip to contested Kuril Islands postponed: Tokyo
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Oct 9 (Sputnik/ANI): The first pilot trip of Japanese tourists to the contested Kuril Islands, which was planned for October 11-16, has been postponed until late October-early November, the Consulate General of Japan in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk told Sputnik on Wednesday.
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Russia, Japan should sign historic peace treaty, proposes Putin
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Sep 13 (ANI): Russia has suggested that Moscow and Tokoyo should sign a peace treaty to end second world war hostilities "without any preconditions."
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