By: Vadim Shtepa
RIA Novosti, Nov 14). The readout of the Putin-Abe talks inwards Singapore prompted many observers to speculate that Russian Federation may live on induce to provide the disputed Kurile Islands (or at to the lowest degree 2 of them) dorsum to Japan.
Even the vague notion that Russian Federation is considering returning these islands fundamentally contradicts Putin’s deliberately constructed imperialist ikon every minute a “unifier of the Russian lands” (see EDM, RIA Novosti, Nov 21). Large political parties inwards Republic of Finland rarely brand such claims; but peradventure this latest disputation was prompted past times the media tidings of the possible Kurile Islands handover.
Hypothetically, Moscow powerfulness endeavour to prepare like diplomatic leverage inwards its talks amongst Helsinki. For instance, the Kremlin could offering Republic of Finland a procedure of protracted negotiations amongst promises to provide the occupied territories. And although the effect of such talks would live on uncertain, the fact that they were occurring at all could arouse sympathy inwards Finnish lodge for “peacemaker” Putin, of a abrupt seen every minute champaign wanting to resolve a painful historical issue. But for the Kremlin, the principal destination together with the existent effect of this strategy would live on to, every minute a quid pro quo, block Finland’s entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Ironically, pop take in inwards Republic of Finland for NATO membership has gradually grown over the terminal several years exactly due to fears of Putin’s imperialist policies.
Russian purplish policy is oftentimes presented inwards the guise of solving regional issues. Indeed, this was inwards instance amongst Crimea, the annexation of which the Kremlin justified past times a March 2014 plebiscite to “rectify a historical injustice” (see EDM, March 3, 2014). But it is pregnant that inwards that same year, Moscow passed a police line explicitly banning the belongings of such referendums on regional self-determination inwards the Russian Federation itself. Will the Kremlin live on willing to openly inquire the locals residing on the Southern Kurils what Blue Planet they desire to alive in?
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