Kurils

In the anthem of Japan, the island on which the state is located are called allegorically “cliffs”. In some translations, even "stones." Typically, the northernmost of the islands adjacent to Japan and in Russia are considered stones. With their ability to stumbling on the path of interstate relations because of the southern smoking Russia and Japan cannot sign a peace treaty that would summarize the 1945 war. Four stones of the Kuril Archipel Ga Japan considers his own. Russia too. For Japanese politicians, it is inconceivable to abandon their requirements. And for Russian - to agree to the claims of the neighbors. In November 2010, Dmitry Medvedev flew to Kunashir one of the South Kuril Islands. And he wrote on Twitter: "How many in Russia in Russia!" What provoked a ritual dialogue: the official Tokyo frowns, the official Moscow makes a stone face, then everyone lay down and talk about the deepening of the dialogue.

“Salt magazine” represents a selection of Kuril landscapes: so that the reader can better imagine why the cheese is.