Russia makes overture on Kurils
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Russia says is ready to resolve its dispute with Japan over the Kuril islands, seized by the Soviets in 1945.
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Japan has told Russia it will not be satisfied with the return of just two of the four disputed Kuril islands. Russia&#39;s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov suggested at the weekend that Moscow might return two of the islands.
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov praised a revised draft U.N. Security Council resolution on Iran, which Britain and France plan to introduce on Monday.
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The Russian government said on Wednesday it would discuss ratifying the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change to which Moscow holds the key.
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Japan tried to reassure Russia about its  missile defense ties with the United States on Tuesday, after  Moscow expressed opposition to Tokyo's involvement in the  system earlier this month.
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Russia wants more concrete reasons from  Washington as to why it plans to build an anti-missile system  in Poland and the Czech Republic, Foreign Minister Sergei  Lavrov said on Tuesday.
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Proposals put forward by Washington to  ease Russian concerns over the planned missile shield in Europe  are "positive signs," a senior Kremlin aide said on Wednesday.
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Britain was Wednesday waiting for a response from Russia, which has said it is planning a &quot;targeted and appropriate&quot; reply, in the ongoing diplomatic dispute between the two countries.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia is ready to contribute to a settlement of conflict between Georgia and its separatist province of South Ossetia.
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President Vladimir V. Putin suggested that Russia would not object to American interceptor missiles in Iraq, Turkey or at sea.
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President Vladimir V. Putin, meeting with Russia&#39;s defense officials and military commanders here, said today that the country would soon deploy new nuclear missile
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Japan insists Russia must return all four of the disputed islands in the Kuril chain - not just two.
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A Kremlin statement issued earlier today reads that the President signed the Protocol last night. It was approved in Duma, a subwing of the Russian Parliament, and the Federal Council.
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MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday raised the possibility that the United States is trying to âisolateâ Russia from its neighbours among the former Soviet republics amid ongoing tension over elections in Ukraine.
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The Russian government will ask parliament to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, bringing the treaty into force if lawmakers agree, something that ``could happen within the next couple of months
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Japan has accused Russia of violating its airspace over and demanded an explanation.
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President Vladimir V. Putin proposed that Russia and the West study emerging missile threats jointly.