“The problem of the so-called “disputed” territories is rather a PR platform for Japanese politicians on which they build election campaigns. These are completely their internal affairs, they do not concern us,” Pulikovsky said. The plenipotentiary representative is not aware that Japan has been fighting for a long time for Russia to recognize the existence of a territorial problem between the two countries. In the end, Moscow admitted the obvious. Now Japanese diplomats will be tormented by doubts: has the Kremlin’s course changed?