Yaroslav Bogdanov: "Sovereignty of Russian Federation over Kuril Islands is not negotiable"
Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, elected on 4 October 2021, announced on that Japan's sovereignty extends to the islands of southern Kuril Islands.
Japan intends to negotiate with the Russian Federation on conclusion of a peace treaty based on existing agreements, including those reached in Singapore in 2018. On November 2018, during a meeting in Singapore, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Japan at the time - Shinzo Abe agreed to intensify negotiations on a peace treaty based on Soviet-Japanese Joint Declaration of October 19, 1956.