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The collection “Russian Kurillers” issued the ideological platform of the “non -return” policy, bringing the “scientific base” under it. In the circles of Russian Japaneseists, they believe that the book was published “under the swan”, in the calculation of the fact that then her ideas will be adopted by other politicians, looking for a way to prove themselves with non -standard approaches. However, after the failure of KRO in the elections about the southern Kurils, they somehow forgot. The new chance to recall seemed to appear a few months later, after Alexander Lebed became the Secretary of the Security Council, and Sergei Glazyev his adviser on economic security issues. However, the then leadership of the Security Council did not manage to deal with the Kuril problem.

Today, Russian diplomacy seems to have a greater field of maneuver in the Japanese direction the domestic political situation in the country is not so dramatic and confusing, as in the season of parliamentary and presidential elections or on the eve of the operation of Boris Yeltsin. The recovery president needs not only positive emotions, but also positive foreign policy steps that strengthen his rating. One of these “small steps” was Primakov’s visit to Tokyo.

In turn, the ideologists of the position of “not a native land” lost a political customer, in any case, for a while. Should I hurry up Russian diplomacy?