In 1831, a massive volcanic eruption in the Kuril Islands sent sulfur-laden ash high into the sky, cooling the planet and tinting the Sun green. The volcano, known as Zavaritzki, remained a mystery ...

It is likely that there will not be a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia this year — or ever one at all. If ...

Russia’s defense minister intends to station a new Russian army division on the disputed Kuril Islands in 2017. The deadlock is rooted in the entrenched positions of both sides.

TOKYO, May 23. /TASS/. A group of citizens of southern Kuril Islands arrived on Thursday in northern Japan under a visa-free exchange program, authorities of the Nemuro port in the Hokkaido ...

TASS/. The Sakhalin Regional Duma has unanimously voted to support a proposal, put forward by a group of activists, for calling a nameless cape of one of the Southern Kuril islands after the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

They developed their own distinct language, history and culture, which were quite different from Japanese, and also lived in northern Honshu, Sakhalin and the Kuril islands. The Ainu people hunted ...

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