Russia returns two seized fishermen to Japan
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Russia returned to Japan on Wednesday   two sailors whose detention off its far eastern coast had   strained relations between the two countries.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Sunday reaffirmed Moscow's adherence to a 1956 declaration in which the Soviet Union said it was ready to hand over two of the four disputed Kuril Islands to Japan.
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Japan's foreign minister warned Russia on Wednesday not to make any provocative moves over four Russian-held islands that both nations claim.
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Japan's PM Junichiro Koizumi takes a boat trip to view the Russian-held Kuril islands, which Tokyo lays claim to.
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BESLAN, Russia Sept. 15, 2004 - Two weeks after heavily armed militants took more than 1,200 hostages in a school in southern Russia, students in this grief-stricken town returned to classes accompanied
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Rescue teams on Friday found two members of a missing Russian canoeing expedition who had survived for nearly three weeks without food in remote gorges in western China.
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Eleven fishing boat crew who had been stranded since October in a remote part of Russia's Far East have been rescued after sheltering nearly three months at an abandoned military base, according to television and Russian news agency reports.
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Moscow wants a Russian shipping tycoon currently living in Britain to be extradited back to Russia, The Guardian reported on Friday.
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Japan has accused Russia of violating its airspace over and demanded an explanation.
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UST-BOLSHERETSK, Russia  - For a rare visitor to the volcanic Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East, no other custom reveals more about the local economy, lifestyle and environment than salmon poaching.
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Russian special services free two people who were held hostage by inmates at a pre-trial detention centre in Moscow.
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A thorny issue of the four disputed Kuril Islands has provoked a new wave of controversial discussions after President Vladimir Putin on Monday said Russia can hand over two of the islands to Japan.
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The three rescued Mexican fishermen who have arrived in the Marshall Islands after a harrowing nine months adrift in the Pacific are due to arrive in Mexico on Friday, the foreign ministry has announced.
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Russia returned to Japan on Wednesday  two sailors whose detention off its far eastern coast had  strained relations between the two countries.
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President Vladimir Putin on Monday said Russia is willing to hand over two of the four disputed Kuril Islands to Japan under a declaration that the Soviet Union signed in 1956.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered new talks to resolve the fate of four rocky islands seized from Japan in the closing days of World War Two, prompting Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to consider a visit to Moscow.
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A Japanese whaling ship on Thursday handed over to an Australian customs vessel two anti-whaling activists who climbed aboard two days earlier in protest, Japan's Fisheries Agency said.