April 16, 1945 marked the start of the top-secret U.S.-Soviet operation “Project Hula,” and a Japan-Soviet territorial ...

Moscowabandoned talks on a WWII peace treaty and ended visa-free visits for Japanese people to the Kuril Islands after Japan sanctioned Russia over the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Yes, a peace treaty was never signed, and the dispute over the Kuril Islands has persisted for more than 70 years. So that begs the question if Russia’s war against Ukraine could follow a ...

The Atoll company will build a mini-hotel with 15 rooms and a cafe on the island of Iturup as part of the special tax regime of the Kuril Islands (CORFU), which exempts businesses from taxes for 20 ...

TOKYO, August 16. /TASS/. The first trip to the southern Kuril Islands, organized for Japanese tourists, will last six days, the Kyodo news agency reported on Friday, adding that up to 35 people ...

MOSCOW, January 22. /TASS/. Two emergency monitoring and assessment centers will be built on Russia’s Far Eastern Kuril Islands in 2019, Marina Dedyushko, a deputy minister for the development ...

Russia’s defense minister intends to station a new Russian army division on the disputed Kuril Islands in 2017.

The Kuril Islands still remain a mystery to the rest of the world The popular science film Land of the People rediscovers the unique territory of the Kuril Islands with their unique human and ...

The blunt remarks by Medvedev, a former president who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, over what Moscow calls the Kuril islands are likely to anger Japan which lays claim to four ...

A view shows a military vehicle of the Bastion coastal missile system that went on duty on the Kuril island of Paramushir, Russia, which is one of the islands claimed by Japan and also known as ...