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Valery Timoshenko – Kuril Islands: to be or not to be?

In this case, the norms of international law are on our side. The question is purely political in nature. With all my sympathy for the Japanese people, Japanese history and culture, issues of a political nature doesn’t make me optimistic. Japan, after more than 60 years since the end of World War II, is still […]

Friendly ultimatum

From 13 August till 27 August, I had the opportunity to take part in the International Scientific Conference, held at Waseda University in Tokyo. The conference agenda was based on the most important theme for the Russian Far East: prospects for development of Russian-Japanese relations. How Japanese geopolitics represent the future of these relations? The […]

The Russian Kurile Islands and the Japanese appetites

By Adzhar Kurtov Adzhar Kurtov is the leading scientific employee of the Russian Institute of Strategic Researches, the candidate of historical sciences. Japan, using the former miscounts of the USSR, and then and of Yeltsin Russia, aspires to review of the results of the World War II. The campaign for the return of the Kurile […]

A Card play with devils

By Sergey Konstantinov The majority of our European partners had a blast, discussing the anniversary of the beginning of the World War II, especially in criticism of the actions of our country. Whether it is necessary to reply to the frank distortion of the historic facts? It costs but not in the logic «you are […]

Falsification of history and interests of the Russian Elite

By I.Shishkin The uniqueness of the Russian situation consists of that fact, that there is the influential group among the elite of our country which is terribly interested in the debunking of the victory. Besides, there is not less influential group which is absolutely not interested in the counteraction of falsification of history, and there […]

Valery Timoshenko — The Interview to Interfax agency

Valery Tymoshenko , the senior assistant of the Department of the Universal History of Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education “Far Eastern State University of Humanities” (FESUH) said: the “A growing number of the Japanese does not consider the theme of return of the northern territories to be essential” The Four islands of […]

The united front of the pseudo-historians operates against Russia

By Alexey Tarasov The theme of the victory of our country in the Great Patriotic war continues to occupy politicians and MASS MEDIA. The scale of that victory was so great, that it upendsed the world picture, – and not at all in behalf on those, who had planned war, had financed and had implemented. […]

The myth about the occupation as the disguise for Waffen SS

By Ilya Semenov “KomiOnline” (The data portal of Komi Republic; the translator’s comment)  presents the essay of of  Ilya Semenov, the director of  the regional public organization of “Guild of specialists  aimed at work with information and  the new technologies”.  It is called “The myth about occupations as the disguise for Waffen SS”. On the […]

The perspective fight against a new evil

By Alexey Sadovnichyi The more closely we approach to the nice anniversary of the Victory Day, the more actively politicians aspire to turn this nice date to own advantage, to use it for increase of own image among voters. They want to benefit from everything, that is connected with our history. Look closely and you […]

Prospects of Japanese and Russian relationships

By Kadzuhiko Togo On September 12, 2009 the 9th conference of Russian and Japanese scientists and journalists called “Prospects of formation of a multipolar system in East Asia” took place at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. It was organized by the Research Center of East Asia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Below I […]