Let’s enjoy English 14th

【Assassination on the leader in the opposition party】

《The one who criticized Putin is assassinate》

…but the background on the murder wasn’t cleared.

In the same year the former executive in the intelligence agency who exiled himself to England was taken in polonium 210 which was the radioactive material in London and was dead. Without having a large scale of nuclear facility, no one can create the polonium 210, so it was the crime which a national organization alone could carry out.

Metropolitan Police Service in London identified a Russian as suspect on the case and requested the ….

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【Assassination on the leader in the opposing party】

《The one who criticized the Putin…》

…and requested the Russian Government turned over the suspected to England, but Russia refused it. The one who was pointed was elected in the election for the National Assembly. He is one of the members in the National Assembly in Russia at present.

In addition a lawyer who worked on the human rights issue in Chechnya and a contract reporter in the independent newspaper company were shot together and were dead then.

As to the case this time, Reuters distributed the comment bringing up the murder case…

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【Assassination on the leader in the opposing party】

《The one who criticized the Putin Government is assassinated》

…Reuters distributed the comment bringing up the murder case in Rome which is the capital in Italy in 1924 as example.

The statesman was murdered then, and he made a speech criticizing Mussolini who was the leader in Italy and the political party of national fascist led by him in the assembly immediate before he was murdered.

After the case, some people were arrested but the judge on the court was changed into the one who belonged to the national fascist, and the ones who…

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【Assassination on the leader in the opposing party】

《The one who criticized the Putin Government is assassinated》

…and the ones who were sentenced guilty were pardoned, and what happened to Italy? We know it enough.

The Prime Minister Merkel convened the meeting with the President Obama over the cease-fire on Ukraine and said she thought as if Putin had gone in another world. Has Russia gone in another world? I’m sure it has.

By the way, the expression on the independent media in Russia seems to be seen in the news on Russia recently. What’s it? What happens in the mass media in Russia?

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『Supplement. Independent mass media in Russia』

Roughly speaking, the media in Russia is two. The one is Russian Broadcasting Corporation, and the other is independent one. The former belongs to the nation or the national organization. It’s the propaganda for the government, so the news which was satisfied with the opinions on the Putin Government was delivered.

Except for it, there is the independent media officially, but there is gray zone, even if it says independent, it can’t always ignore the intention on the government.

【The way of getting rid of the freedom of speech】

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【The way of getting rid of the freedom of speech】

There is the newspaper which continues to criticize the Putin Government. It’s Novaya Gazeta which means a new newspaper. Though some people were killed or injured, it’s defended an isolate position on criticizing the political administration.

After the Soviet Union in which there was no freedom of speech collapsed, the mass media which took into action on the freedom of speech were born one after another, but when the Putin Government is formed, the broadcasting stations have learned to broadcast on pro-government.

If the broadcasting…

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《The way of getting rid of the freedom of speech》

If the broadcasting station isn’t pro-government, a rich man who is close to the Putin Government bought the broadcasting station, so it learned not to criticize the Putin Government. As a result, the newspapers were the ones for the government alone, therefore, Novaya Gazeta is precious, but it has made a big sacrifice for it until at present, for five reporters were murdered.

The deputy editor wad dead in 2003, and lots of people found it suspicious. As having high fever and was hospitalized in Moscow. The skin on his face come off, hair…

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【The way of getting rid of the freedom of speech】

The skin of his face came off, the hair removal also started and he became unable to breathe, and died. Its cause was unclear then, but it seems the radioactive thallium was taken into his body in one way or another. Ordinary people can’t get the radioactive thallium.

The woman reporter was shot to death at the elevator in her apartment house by someone unknown in 2006, but the President Putin didn’t say the words of condolences to her relations at all. An ordinary President would usually say it’s the invasion on the freedom of speech.

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【The way of getting rid of the freedom of speech】

Far from it, Putin said the assassination struck more serious damage to Russia than the news story criticizing the political administration written by her.

It means the journalist who was opposed to the government was assassinated was a conspiracy so as to disgrace the Putin Government. Except for the woman reporter, the lawyer who tackled the human rights issues in Chechnya and the contract reporter who were in the middle of interviewing the lawyer were shot to death on the road in broad daylight.

Novaya Gazeta has been founded in 1993…

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【The way of getting rid of the freedom of the speech】

Novaya Gazeta has been founded in 1993 after the Soviet Union collapsed, and Gorbachev who is the last President in the Soviet invested in Novaya Gazeta. It was epoch making. Its publication is three times a week, and the number of copies are two hundred twenty thousand officially. It’s a small scale of newspaper.

Its advertisement has decreased so extremely that its management is in difficulty. Applying pressure on advertising client who puts an ad a private newspaper or broadcasting station and stops it from putting ad. The tragedy…

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【The way of getting rid of the freedom of speech】

The tragedy on Novaya Gazeta has shown us it’s the most effective way so as to get the newspaper of which the government doesn’t approve to shut up. The light of the freedom of speech is about to go out.

《Damaging the reputation on the name of free and democratic》

There was the member of assembly who said it’s all right on getting rid of advertising revenue so as to teach a lesson to the newspaper in Japan in 2015. The political party to which he belongs to has the word of free and democratic. It must have been the gathering or the people…

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【The way of getting rid of the freedom of speech】

《Damaging the reputation on the name of free and democratic》

It must have been the gathering of the people who think the free and democratic society is wonderful, but there is the one who doesn’t think like that.

The author said there is one thing which he wants the one like that to imagine. At the time of change on the government. If the member of assembly in the political party which gained the power said the object teaching lesson is the newspaper which the one like to read, what does it think of it? That must not be done.

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【The way of getting rid of the freedom of the speech】

《Damaging the reputation on the name…》

The one of which situation gets worse isn’t limited to Russia alone. The next is the situation in Turkey.

27 people were taken into custody by the police authority in Turkey December in 2014. The center of the people who were detained were the editor in a leading newspaper company, a producer in TV station, or journalist. The leading newspaper company is representative and high grade in Turkey.

The more Erdogan becomes autocratic, the more criticism on the Erdogan was strengthened on the newspaper

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【The way of getting rid of the freedom of speech】

《Damaging on the reputation of the name of free and democratic》

In the middle of the term on the Prime Minister, Erdogan ran to the Presidential election and was elected as President. The Prime Minister has the real power and the President is just a symbolic head of state in Turkey.

But no sooner had been the President than he amended the constitution and tried to concentrate the power on the President. The reporters on newspaper who reported it critically were arrested one after another.

The one which the leading newspaper company suffers…

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【The way of getting rid of the freedom of speech】

《Damaging on the reputation of the name…》

The thing from which the leading newspaper company suffers isn’t the custody on the editor alone. It’s fallen into reduction on the income of advertisement.

When the dictatorial tendency becomes strong by Erdogan, companies which place ad on the leading newspaper company have learned to stop doing advertising one after another.

As the leading newspaper company is such the high grade newspaper that there are lots of intelligent readers or are plenty of readers belong to affluent people, so it’s…

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【The way of getting rid of the freedom of speech】

《Damaging on the reputation of the name of free and democratic》

So it’s attractive as media for advertisement, but the advertisement decreased. If putting ad on the newspaper, it’s obvious on the space of the newspaper, so the advertising client would end up receiving violent harassment by the government.

Thus the freedom of speech in Turkey has been eaten. The leading newspaper company has been under the control by the government in 2016 at last.

Getting rid of the freedom of speech is all right if wanting to teach the mass media a lesson.

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The Erdogan government in Turkey has carried it out actually.

The former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was famous for going on well with the President Putin in Russia and Erdogan President in Turkey. Young members in the National Assembly who regard themselves as supporting party for Shinzo Abe have thought they should follow the two Presidents, haven’t they?

【Greek myth and geopolitics. Why does Russia watch Greece? 】

The Greek are proud. They have taken pride in creating Europe for themselves. Let’s look at the Greek myth.

Europe was famous as a beautiful princess in Phoenicia.

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【Greek myth and geopolitics. Why does Russia watch Greece? 】

Zeus who is almighty god fell in love with Europe at first sight. He changed himself into a young bull and approached her so as to make his crush his. When she straddled on the back of the bull, the bull ran through each place and arrived at the Crete Island finally.

The area where Zeus ran through with Europe on his back learned to be called Europe, naming after the princess. As there was Greece, there is Europe at present. The Greek have thought like that.

The bill in euro is common for affiliated countries in EU, but each…

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【Greek myth and geopolitics. Why does Russia watch Greece? 】

….but each nation in Europe makes its coins originally, and Europe who sat on the back of the bull which Zeus changed into is inscribed on the back of 2 euro coin in Greece.

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle…speaking of Greece, prominent philosophers appeared one after another there. When the crisis in public finance broke to the surface in Greece in 2009, the author interviewed the Greek at Athens which is the capital in Greece.

They said the civilization in Greece has created the civilization in Europe, so it’s natural for other…

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【Greek myth and geopolitics. Why does Russia watch Greece?】

…so it’s natural for other Europeans to help Greece.

When listening to it, the author was completely appalled at it. Greece couldn’t pay back its debt but it seems that the Greek thought the one who was in the wrong is the one who borrow such a lots of money that Greece couldn’t pay back.

The Greek have felt confident, being puffed up, for there has been the history in the past, the history of the Cold War between East and West.

The place where there is Greece became the important position in the Cold War between East and West.

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【Greek myth and geopolitics. Why does Russia watch Greece? 】

There was the confrontation between East Europe which was incorporated into the Soviet Union and West Europe which sided with America. Greece was in the middle of two of them. It caused to break out the civil war in Greece.

Greece was occupied by Nazis Germany, and after Germany lost in the war, power vacuum was born in Greece. The influence of guerrilla by communists which accepted the direction from the communist party in Greece and militia which is the right wing were opposed to each other seriously. They fought each other.

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【Greek myth and geopolitics. Why does Russia watch Greece?】

The damage on the civil war was more serious than the one from the World War Ⅱ.

The former President Truman in America started helping Greece with a large amount of money so as to prevent Greece from falling into the Communism. In Greece, the influence on communism fought among themselves, so the militia of right which received the aid from America won.

After that America continued to help Greece so as to prevent Greece from being communists. Greece has joined in NATO in 1952. NATO is the safe collective security system on anti …

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【Greek myth and geopolitics. Why does Russia watch Greece?】

NATO is the safe collective security system in anti Soviet Union sphere, and Greece learned to occupy the important position there. After that, the military coup broke out in Greece, and its government was under military dictatorship at a time, but America made much of Greece which was in an important position so as to form an encirclement against Soviet, so America shut its eyes to the behavior on the military dictatorship in Greece.

What is called double standard was demonstrated by America there. What is the double standard?

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【Greek myth and geopolitics. Why does Russia watch Greece? 】

Double standard means changing opinion and reaction, according to the situation. Giving a specific one a favorable treatment.

《Greece is important from the view of geopolitical point at present》

Thus statesmen and the nation in Greece have learned to think it natural that each nation in the west side of Europe helps Greece, for Greece is in important place so as to confront to each nation in the east side of Europe.

Greece joined in EC which is the original organization for EU in 1981, and continued to receive financial aide…

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《Greece is in important position from…》

…and continues to receive financial aide from other affiliated countries. It’s the existence which is supported from other nations from the beginning.

Greece would never be left behind. It’s other Greek myth.

Tsipras Government in Greece made use of its geopolitical position and behaved itself as if it had deepened the relation between Greece and other countries like China or Russia and made America and Europe upset.

EU requested Greece carry out budget austerity 緊縮財政, but Greece reacted…

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【Greek myth and geopolitics. Why does Russia watch Greece?】

《Greece is in important position from the point of geopolitical point》

…but Greece reacted sharply against it and carried out the referendum whether or not Greece should accept the request from EU. Then the Tsipras Government informed the result on the referendum to the President Putin in Russia.

Greece and Russia connects with religion. Both of them believe in the Orthodox Catholic Church. Greek Orthodox Church spread over East Europe and changes into Russian Orthodox Church in Russia.

Russia has adopted the Cyrillic alphabet.

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【Greek myth and geopolitics. Why does Russia watch Greece? 】

《Greece is in important place from…》

The unique Cyrillic alphabet changed from Greek characters. As having lived in Japan, we aren’t aware of it unexpectedly.

President Putin says occasionally Russia and Greece are connected with common culture, he is aware of helping a friend who is in difficulty is natural, but it is doubtful whether or not Russia has the capacity to help Greece. The price on petroleum and natural gas has dropped, and the balance of international payment becomes worse. Annexation to Crimea Peninsula caused the…

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【Greek myth and geopolitics. Why does Russia watch Greece?】

《Greece is in important place from the point of geopolitical view》

Annexation to the Crimea Peninsula caused the economic sanction from America and each nation in Europe, so the value on ruble which is its currency dropped.

But Tsipras government showing other countries he and President Putin are intimate and has made other nations think if being put in difficult position, Greece may have sided with Russia. He threatened America and each nation in Europe.

On the other hand, Greece is in important place for China as well.

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《Greece is in important place…》

China has come up with a plan on 一帯一路. Greece is in important place in its plan. 一帯 means the Silk Road on the land through the Central Asia. 一路 means the sea route from the coast in China to the Middle East and North Africa through the South China Sea and Indian Ocean.

Greece is in the place where the 一帯 and 一路 connects, and China has tried to strengthen the influence over Greece by helping Greece. America has got nervous on it.

Greece is at the south end of the Balkan Peninsula. It’s a chief…

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《Greece is in important place from the point of geopolitical point》

It’s chief part of military strategy being put between the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea and facing Russia and the Middle East. There is the U.S.military base there and the footing for aerial bombardment at the Islamic State which calling itself.

If Greece withdraws from EU, it may have withdrawn from NATO. America has asked each nation in EU not to corner Greece so as to prevent Greece from withdrawing from NATO.

Greece is aware of its geopolitical position…

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…it’s not to easy to handle Greece.

【Wanting Syria by the strategy of pushing southward】

Russia bombed Syria in 2016. Did Russia aim at attacking the extremists in the call itself Islamic State? Or does Russia try to attack the Assad Government? The situation in Syria becomes incomprehensible.

Lots of refugees who surged on Europe were escaped from civil war in Syria. Accepting refugees has reached to the limit in Europe, so Europe has to manage the source of causing refugees. England and America continue air bombing to the Islamic State, and the military unit in France joined in it.

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【Wanting Syria by the strategy of pushing southward】

Let’s overview the situation in Syria.

At first the Assad government is minority of Alawite in Islam. Alawite isn’t familiar with us. Roughly speaking, when separating Islam into two religious group, there is Sunni and Shia, and Alawite belongs to Shia, for Iran which is a big country as Shia has said clearly the Alawite belongs to Shia.

But reincarnation is included in its doctrine, it has characteristic like Buddhism and Hindi, so Sunni sometimes calls Alawite a heretic.

The President Assad in Syria used not to have ambition to the…

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【Wanting Syria by the strategy of pushing southward】

The President Assad didn’t used to have ambition to the power in the beginning. His brother was supposed to be the successor of his father who was a dictator, but his brother was dead in the accident, so Assad was forced to be the President.

He tried to change the autocratic state into democratic nation in the beginning, but the influence of what is called the spring in Arab spread over Syria and the movement of anti government started, he changed completely and started to suppress. As calling government army to arm and started slaughter…

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【Wanting Syria by the strategy of pushing southward】

…the part of government army who couldn’t see the slaughter broke away from the government army, and formed the free army in Syria and started fight against the Assad Government.

It’s Saudi Arabia which is a big country as Sunni and Qatar paid attention to it. They thought it’s a good chance to defeat the heretic and supplied fund and weapon to the antigovernment force. Thus the full scale of civil war has broken out.

To make matters worse, it’s al-Qaeda which is the international terrorism group took advantage of the civil war.

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【Wanting Syria by the strategy of pushing southward】

Besides, the former one of Islamic State which existed in Iraq which is neighboring country went into Syria. Though they sometimes fought against the Assad government, they attacked the anti government force mainly, gaining fund and weapon and has grown up rapidly.

As a result, four groups joined in the war, Assad Government, free army in Syria, al-Qaeda, and Islamic State.

America and each nation of Europe had a sense of crisis on it, but none of them didn’t think to send its ground force to Syria, for it was obvious, ending up being…

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【Wanting Syria by strategy of pushing southward】

...ending up being involved in the quagmire of the war, so the Obama government planed to take out antigovernment force which is different from al-Qaeda from Syria to the area which were controlled by the government of Iraq, and made them be engaged in military training, offering the latest weapon and return them back to Syria.

But there was almost none of influence which joined in it, and even if offering weapon, the weapon fell into the hands of al-Qaeda.

《Russia supports the Assad Government》

Then the President Putin started to prop up...

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【Wanting Syria by strategy of pushing southward】

《Russia supports the Assad Government》

The President Putin in Russia has started to prop up the Assad Government. He has the sense of crisis with regard to the situation that the Islamic State expanded its influence like leaders in other countries.

America and each nation in Europe don't think they want to accept the Assad Government, so supports the anti government force, except for Islamic State and al-Qaeda.

On the other hand, Putin thought strengthening the Assad Government and defeating Islamic State, to be exact, he wants to defeat...

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【Wanting Syria by strategy of pushing southward】

《Russia supports the Assad Government》

…exactly he wants to defeat all the anti Assad force and to continued to exist the Assad Government. Russia has announced it dropped bomb at Islamic State, but a suspicion has arisen. Is that the announcement true?

Though saying it attacked Islamic State, it seems to make the free army in Syria attack the anti Assad force. Whatever it takes, Russia wants to protect the Assad Government. Why?

The Assad Government has offered Russia the place for its navy base. Russia has adopted the strategy of pushing…

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【Wanting Syria by strategy of pushing southward】

《Russia supports the Assad Government》

Russia has adopted the strategy of pushing southward traditionally so as to seek for an ice free port, for its port is frozen in winter and they couldn’t go out to the sea. It doesn’t ring a bell for us the Japanese, but it’s unbearable for the Russians.

As the navy base belonging to Russia is formed at the coast of Syria facing to the Mediterranean Sea, Russia has learned to be able to move the fleet from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean at will.

Furthermore, Russia has sent battle…

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【Wanting Syria by strategy of pushing southward】

《Russia supports the Assad Government》

Moreover Russia has sent the battle planes and fighter bombers to Syria. It seems that Russi could acquire not only the navy base but the Air Force base. When attacking Islamic State, the fighter bombers belonging to Russia can fly around over the sky of Syria at will.

At the time of the Cold War between east and west, Soviet Union used to maintain to have great influence over the Middle East and to export weapons each nation in Arab which opposed to Israel, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union…

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【Wanting Syria by strategy of pushing southward】

《Russia supports the Assad Government》

…each nation in Arab started to side with America. Russia which was succeed to from Soviet lost influence over the Middle East completely, but the ambition of taking back the authority on Russia in the past appears and disappears this time

It is the Obama government which is forced to stand in a difficult position. It wants to get rid of the threat on the Islamic State, but it can’t do it for itself. Some people say it can’t be helped if fighting against Islamic State with the Assad Government.

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【Wanting Syria by strategy of pushing southward】

《Russia supports the Assad Government》

The National Party and the Communist Party used to join force in China so as to fight against Japan which was their common enemy. It’s the contemporary version of the Chinese one.

Iran supports the Assad Government and attacked Islamic State, and America has accepted it silently. On this occasion, America should attack Islamic State with Iran with a good chemistry, shouldn’t it? But the Obama government would be criticized in America, the Obama Government tried to prolong the Assad Government.

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While being worried about what to do, the time passes and the thing that Obama Government could do disappears…the bad habit on the Obama Government showed up, though the Obama Government is a thing in the past.

By the way, what is the spring in Arab? It’s a series of full scale of democratic movement each place in the Middle East from at the beginning of 2011. It started from the democratic movement in Tunisia.

【What will happen to Japan’s sovereignty over the Northern Territories to Japan】

It was written before Russia started to attack Ukraine in full scale, so I’m afraid it’s …

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【What will happen to Japan’s sovereignty over the Northern Territories to Japan?】

…so I’m afraid it’s too old as information.

By the way, as to the words on Japan’s sovereignty over the Northern Territory to Japan is too long, so I make it a rule to express it the Northern Territories to Japan.

The big news for Japan then was there was the possibility that the Northern Territories to Japan returns to us. At the summit conference between Japan and Russia by Abe and Putin was done November in 2018. They agreed with that both of two countries would conclude the peace treaty within three years.

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【What will happen to Japan’s sovereignty over the Northern Territories to Japan?】

The agreement was done, being based on the Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration in 1956. It means Soviet Union agreed with that it would hand over each of group Island of Habomai and Shikotan Island, responding to the request from Japan and taking account into its benefit, but both of the islands would hand over to Japan after concluding the peace treaty between Japan and Soviet was done. The agreement in 2018 was trying to come true the Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration

In short, as long as concluding the peace…

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【What will happen to Japan’s sovereignty over the Northern Territories to Japan? 】

…as long as concluding the peace treaty, Habomai and Shikotan will return to Japan. How about two of other islands, Kunashiri, and Etorofu?

To be frank with you, the former Abe Government gave up returning four islands to Japan, didn’t it? No, it didn’t. It tried to express like the next.

Coming true that two of islands reruns to Japan first of all, but our negotiation doesn’t come to an end. We the Japanese will continue the negotiation rerunning the islands to Japan and economic cooperation in the future.

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《The strategy of pushing southward won’t stop》

There has been the strategy of pushing southward traditionally in Russia. Lots of wars and disputes were broken out so as to seek out for the ice free port and to take into action at will from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

The Self Defense Force in Japan used to deploy the large troops in Hokkaido prefecture at the time of the Cold War between east and west, for Japan has been cautious about the strategy of pushing southward by Russia.

Russia transferred Crimea Peninsula from…

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【What will happen to the Northern Territories to Japan? 】

《The strategy of pushing southward won’t stop》

Russia transferred the Crimea Peninsula from Ukraine to Russia by force in 2014, and it was the party of the strategy of pushing southward. Russia has intervened in the dispute in Syria at present, for there is the naval port belonging to the Russian Navy at the west of Syria facing to the Mediterranean Sea, so Russia wants to maintain the present government in Syria.

On the other hand, Russia which is resource-rich country has Europe natural gas, but European people were afraid that…

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【What will happen to the Northern Territories to Japan? 】

《Strategy of pushing southward won’t stop》

…the European people were afraid that the situation wouldn’t go well due to Russia, and the civil war in Ukraine prevent the pipeline from sending the natural gas, so the sale on the natural gas became very dull.

To make matters worse, as the shale gas has been produced in America, so the price on the natural gas dropped, so Russia thought it wanted to sell Japan natural gas more. Then Putin has started to say, let’s conclude the peace treat! and return the Northern Territories to Japan!

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《Strategy of pushing southward won’t stop》

When developing resource at the Far East, Russia wants the funds and technical skill in Japan. Russia wants to lay the pipeline on the field of the natural gas in Siberia or Karafuto to Japan direct and to sell the natural gas as it was.

Changing the natural gas into liquid and stacking it up on the tanker and carrying it away to Japan at present, so if the pipeline is laid, it’ll be more efficient.

After the great earthquake and the nuclear disaster in the East Japan, Japan is forced to….

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