
Expert: Visit of Russian Prime Minister to the Kurils is a warning to the West
Visit of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to Iturup Island demonstrated to the West that Russia is ready to firmly defend its territorial interests in a tense international situation, said Valery Kistanov, head of the Center for Japanese Studies at the Far East Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in a comment for the Rossa Primavera News Agency.