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Kuril island may be named after Soviet diplomat Gromyko

February 12, 2013 Far East, Siberia, APEC, Japan No comments
Map of Northern Japan, Kurill Islands, Sea of Okhotsk, Portions of Russian Far East

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK. Feb 11 (Interfax) – The Russian Foreign Ministry’s office in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk has suggested to the Sakhalin division of the Russian Geographic Society naming an unnamed Kuril island after Soviet diplomat Andrei Gromyko. The Sakhalin division backed the proposal and submitted it to the Moscow office of the Russian Geographic Society for approval, Vladimir Nosov, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s representative in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, told Interfax. “Despite the fact that Andrei Gromyko

Jets Scramble on Japan’s Northern Territories Day

February 8, 2013 Far East, Siberia, APEC, Japan, Military No comments
Map of Northern Japan, Kurill Islands, Sea of Okhotsk, Portions of Russian Far East

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Ivan Nechepurenko – February 8, 2013) Japan scrambled four fighter jets to intercept two Russian fighters it said invaded Japanese airspace near Russia’s Kuril Islands for about 11 seconds on Thursday, as Japan celebrated a national day of commemoration calling for the disputed archipelago seized in World War II to return to the Japanese. Russia’s Defense Ministry denied that an intrusion had taken place and

 

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