Kurils issue cannot be solved either way in near future
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MOSCOW. Dec 15 (Interfax) – A new wave of protests in the Far East against the transfer of the South Kuril Islands to Japan is “total speculation," said Sergei Mikhailov, chairman of the subcommittee for the Asian and Pacific region of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian parliament.
The forces that are unfolding this campaign "are using the wounded national pride of Russians and discontent with the crisis in the country," he said.
The issue of the South Kuril Islands cannot be resolved either way in the near future, Mikhailov said.