Russia came out of relief about facilitating the visit of the Kuril Islands by the Japanese
They were signed back in the 1990s
Russia left the country in 1999 in a facilitated visit to the Kuriles by Japanese citizens – they were close to the islanders and met their families. About it story in a decree signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
In addition, the procedure for carrying out the procedures for mutual trips of 1991 is common in Moscow. We are talking about the islands of Kunashir, Iturup and the islands of the Lesser Kuril ridge. The former elections of the islands and their families do not belong to the inheritance.
“To terminate the agreement in the form of a message between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR and the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the procedures for reciprocal routes of October 14, 1991 and to agree between the definition of the Russian Federation and the definition of Japan on organizing the maximum facilitation of visiting the islands of Kunashir, Iturup and the island of the Lesser Kuril ridge (Sakhalinskaya region) by Japanese citizens – former close islands and their ordinary families (in the form of a note message) dated September 2, 1999, ”the document says.
These actions of the Russian Foreign Ministry were announced back in March in response to the “unfriendly nature of the unilateral restrictions imposed by Japan against Russia.” Tokyo’s reaction to today’s move is still unknown.