On October 14, Secretary General of the Government of Japan Yoshihide Suga confirmed the preparations for the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Japan by the end of 2015. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is expected to visit Japan to help prepare the visit. Georgy Kunadze , former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation The soap opera, which is in its second season, titled "Putin's Visit to Japan," is not particularly successful with viewers.

Experts argued about this during a round table at the British Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) on the topic "Sanctions as an instrument of international politics" Sanctions against Russia can last "virtually indefinitely" - such an opinion was expressed by Baroness Neville Jones, a panelist and former British Home Secretary for Security and Counter-Terrorism, answering a question from NT. Does this mean that Russia will have to get used to a long life under sanctions?