Kurils: In different cities, promotions were held against the transfer of the islands

On Sunday, January 20, in the cities of Russia, shares were held against the possible transfer of part of the islands of the Kuril ridge. The rally agreed with the authorities was held in Moscow - it was supported by the “Left Front”, “Party of Case”, the unregistered party “Another Russia”, the movement of Igor Strelkov “Novorossiya” and a number of other leftist and nationalist organizations. About a thousand people came to the action.

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The main slogan that sounded at the rally: "Kurils are our land!"

On the square, the flags of the left front, the Communist Party, the party of the case, the OKP, the NPSR, the other Russia are visible. Citizens hold the posters “our smokers will not give it!”, “Stop selling Russia!”, “Hands off the smoking!”, “We give Putin instead of smoking!”, Actively chant the patriotic slogans Pic.twitter.com/iwpljweugt

- Sergey Udaltsov (@s_udaltsov) January 20, 2019

Several speakers - in particular, the president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, Leonid Ivashov and the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church Vsevolod Chaplin - called for the authorities not only not to transfer the Kurils of Japan, but also to "grow up with new lands", especially Ukrainian. “Crimea is a good counterattack, but it is not enough,” Chaplin said. “The capital of our ancient Rus' is lost - Kyiv. It must be returned, like the lands surrounding it.”

The first secretary of the United Communist Party, Vladimir Lakeev, proposed, in turn, not to conduct any negotiations with Japan until it "becomes socialist." He recalled the time when "the USSR was friends with Japan without talking about the islands," and "half the country was in Japanese jackets, because the Soviet Union dominated the international arena with its powerful economy."

Most of the speakers also demanded to resign the government, while not mentioning President Putin in their speeches. Only the General Director of the Center for Scientific Political Thought and Ideology Stepan Sulashkin said from the stage that "the requirement of the government’s resignation is" Driving ", since after five minutes Putin will lead the same." He compared the president’s activities with a “cancer tumor in the fourth stage”.

In addition to politicians and social activists at the rally, singer Vika Tsyganova performed at the rally. After the performance of the song "Hello, Russia, do you remember me?" She called on "not to give the smoking guesses" and invited everyone to her nearest concerts.

The artist Igor Kochetkov was detained for the promotion with the The Islands Are Mine sign ("Island-mine"), he told OVD-Info about this. According to Kochetkov, he hung a sign on his neck two weeks ago, and just walked with her around Moscow without political purposes. He was accused of disobedience to police officers and left for the night before the court in the police department.

In Khabarovsk, a coordinated rally against the possible transfer of part of the Kuril Islands of Japan and the construction of a nuclear burial ground in the Primorsky Territory gathered about 500 people. The participants went through a march along the main street of the city to Lenin Square. "Our smokers! Down with the Putin authority!" - the slogans were heard in the column.

The picket against the transfer of the islands was held in the city of Nakhodka of the Primorsky Territory. About 30 people adopted a resolution addressed to the authorities with a request to immediately stop considering the possible transfer of the Kuril Islands of Japan. In addition to the issue of the integrity of the country, the participants discussed coal dust from which the residents of the find suffer.

Activists of another Russia also held an action with the Japanese consulate in St. Petersburg. One of them reportedly was detained .

On the eve of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, about 300 people gathered for a disagreed action against the transfer of the southern smoking of Japan, one was detained.

The NPSR in Kaliningrad is concerned about the possible transmission of Japan ... The picket is agreed peacefully. https://t.co/xqfil9eccn

- Nikolay (@akimow) January 20, 2019

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in an interview with Interfax, said that at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Singapore in November 2018, they completely divided the solid determination, based on the accumulated mutual trust, it is necessary to put an end to the issue of the conclusion of a peaceful problem with their own hands, without transmitting this problem to the next generation, which remains, remaining this problem. For more than 70 post -war years, unresolved. " ABe intends to continue "close consultations" with Putin and achieve a "mutual" solution to the problem.

Applications of Japanese Prime Minister of claims to southern Kurils will greatly complicate negotiations with Putin, said Presidential Assistant Yuri Ushakov on the air of the Russia 1 television channel.

Japan does not recognize the Russian belonging of the islands of the southern part of the Kuril ridge - Iturup, Shikotan, Kunashir and Habomai. Due to the dispute about the belonging of the islands, Russia and Japan have not yet signed a peace treaty.

On November 14, after the meeting of the leaders of Russia and Japan, spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke about plans to return to the 1956 declaration, on which Moscow agreed to transfer two of the four islands to the Japanese side. The Russian Foreign Ministry subsequently stated that the condition for signing a peace treaty is the recognition of Russian sovereignty over all Kuril Islands. The meeting of Abe and Putin is scheduled for January 22. In June, Putin is waiting at the summit of twenty groups in Osaka.