Russia appears keen to boost patriotism among residents on four islands that Japan calls the Northern Territories. Russia ...

Japan considers the absence of a peace treaty with Russia a regrettable fact. This was stated by the head of the Japanese ...

Japan resurrected a tougher stance over the disputed Northern Territories at its annual rally to demand Russia return the four islands off Hokkaido, amid stalled negotiations between the two nations.

Russian servicemen from the 61st Separate Marine Brigade of the Russian Northern Fleet suffered losses ... some Russian soldiers are being sent to the islands as punishment. The ATESH movement ...

Russia's navy said on Tuesday it had discovered five new islands revealed by melting glaciers ... said the head of the northern fleet, Vice Admiral Alexander Moiseyev. “Mainly this is of course ...

Russian and Ukrainian forces are fighting for control of the Kozatskyi and Kruhlyk islands, which are located at the river's mouth, where it empties into the Black Sea. This operation is ...

Former residents of Russian-held islands have attended a rally to demand the islands' early return to Japan, which calls them the Northern Territories. About 750 former islanders, relatives and ...

The islands, off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, are known in Russia as the Kurils and in Japan as the Northern Territories and have been at the core of decades of tension between the ...