China and Russia have demarcated the once disputed islands at the Amur and Ussuri confluence and in the Argun River in accordance with the 2004 Agreement, ending their centuries-long border disputes; the sovereignty dispute over the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai grou...
Instead of a hotel as in previous trips, I stayed in FEFU university accommodation. The university has been more prominent in recent years and a lot of attention was paid to the move onto Russkiy Island, but unfortunately I didn’t get the chance to stay there as the language school is o...
TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on an island near disputed resource-rich maritime territory Wednesday, hoping to make progress toward resolving a dispute lingering since World war II. It is the first time a Japanese premier has set foot on the isla...
Russia owns such islands as the New Land (Novaya Zemlya), North Land (Severnaya Zemlya), Vaygach, the archipelago of Franz Josef Land, Novosibirsk Islands, Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean; Kuril Islands (a part of the Kuril Islands is disputed by Japan) and Sakhalin Island in the Pacif...
KHERSON OBLAST, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 05: Destroyed buildings are seen on an island in the middle of the Dnieper River in Kherson, Ukraine, Nov. 5, 2023. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images "I cannot reveal all the measures we are currently taking, but it is obvious that the ...
Many in China claim that the city itself, known generally by its pre-Russian settlement days as Haishenwai (海參崴) is rightfully Chinese. What is not disputed though, is that on June 29th1860 a small unit of Russian troops landed here from a ship and set up a settlement. That swelled ...
The signs ь and ъ, which apparently were vowels in Old Church Slavonic, of uncertain quality (as the vocalization of Old Church Slavonic is disputed), have now either become markers of "soft" and "hard" consonsants, as in Russian, or have been dropped, as in Serbian. These are diverge...
In aninterviewwith the U.K. Daily Telegraph after Monday’s disclosures, Mifsud acknowledged meeting with Papadopoulos but disputed the contents of the conversations as cited in the court papers. Specifically, he denied knowing anything about emails containing “dirt” on Clinton and called the clai...
Warplanes from four countries faced off Tuesday in a chaotic and unprecedented confrontation above a small, disputed island off the coast of South Korea and Japan. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a statement claiming they had fired more than 300 warning shots at a Russian A-50 com...
“malicious activities” and urged Tehran to stop supplying drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine. In itscommuniqué, NATO said “Iran’s support to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine” is impacting Euro-Atlantic security. NATO also called on China to abstain from ...