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Russia eyes free trade zone on islands disputed by Japan - Newspaper


VLADIVOSTOK: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin visits a fish processing plant on a Pacific island also claimed by Japan. AP
MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Monday visited the disputed Kuril Islands and said authorities wanted to establish a free economic zone there, sparking a protest from Japan.
The Kurils, which lie north of Japan’s Hokkaido island, have been controlled by Moscow since they were seized by Soviet troops in the dying days of World War II.
The territorial dispute has kept the two countries from signing a peace accord that would formally end their wartime hostilities.
During his visit to Iturup, the largest and northernmost island of the archipelago, Mishustin proposed exempting the islands from customs duty and reducing taxes for businesses. “This set of measures is unprecedented,” Mishustin said. ....

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Japan to protest to Russia over PM's visit to disputed island


By Reuters Staff
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MOSCOW/TOKYO (Reuters) -Russia rejected what it said was a hostile Japanese diplomatic protest following a visit to a disputed island chain on Monday by the Russian prime minister, saying he could go wherever on Russian territory he wanted.
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A top Japanese government spokesman said earlier on Monday that Tokyo was lodging an official diplomatic protest over the visit by Mikhail Mishustin to one of four Russian-held islands to which Japan lays claim.
Japan, which Russian news agencies said had summoned the Russian ambassador over the matter, calls the islands the Northern Territories, while Russia calls them the Kuril Islands. The territorial dispute over the islands dates to when the then-Soviet Union seized them at the end of World War Two, and has prevented the two countries from signing a formal peace treaty. ....

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