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Russia's Sakhalin residents want to be part of Japan
August 12, 2009By Paul Goble Sakhalin Residents Petition to Have Their Territory Transferred to Japan A group of Sakhalin residents, after a visit to Tokyo, are not only studying Japanese but also collecting signatures on a petition asking that Moscow hand over...
Do we detect a neo-Finlandisation in the Eastern neighbourhood?
May 28, 2009By Michael Emerson The term Finlandisation has dropped out of current diplomatic usage, since Finland has long since quit this state of affairs and Russia is not the Soviet Union. But still the term has stuck in the terminology of international relations...






