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Can We Talk about a Breakthrough in Russian-Japanese Relations?
28/03/2017
... Kuril Islands. The Russian and Japanese foreign ministers and defense ministers also held a meeting in the 2+2 format. The media promptly declared that a breakthrough had taken place in Russian-Japanese relations. However, Valdai Club expert Valery Kistanov, who heads the Center for Japanese Studies at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences thinks that it is still too early to talk about any “breakthrough”: resolutions to most important bilateral problems are “beyond the visible political horizon....
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