Russia Wants Kuril Islands Settled

AP Online | January 3, 1999| | Copyright

GREG MYRE, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
01-03-1999
Russia Wants Kuril Islands Settled

KUNASHIR, Kuril Islands (AP) -- With the fish factories shuttered and the one-note economy in shambles, the Russians on these stormy, volcanic islands are debating a radical survival plan -- leasing their territory to covetous Japan.

Russia and Japan have been feuding for 53 years over the four southernmost Kuril islands as if they were sacred ground. Yet the scene at Kunashir's port -- the very heart of the most populous island -- is an unbroken vision of rot and decay.

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