The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman stresses the deployment of Russia’s Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets on Iturup is not aimed at destabilizing relations with Tokyo MOSCOW, August 9. /TASS/. The ...

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, September 24. /TASS/. The blaze on the Pyotr Zhitnikov depot ship near Iturup has spread to neighboring rooms after containment, the press service of the Federal Agency for Marine ...

The Atoll company will build a mini-hotel with 15 rooms and a cafe on the island of Iturup as part of the special tax regime of the Kuril Islands (CORFU), which exempts businesses from taxes for 20 ...

Scanning a moving blip on the screen that indicated an airliner, Japanese defense command radar operators on the northernmost tip of Hokkaido Island radioed a warning. “You are off course,” chided the ...

Explorers on the disputed Kurile Islands have uncovered heavy guns and piles of explosives left in the jungle after World War II. 1 Tracked vehicles crawl along a beach on Iturup Island, one of the ...

MOSCOW, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Two Russian Su-35s fighter jets for the first time landed in an airfield on Iturup (called as Etorofu by Japan), one of the four Pacific islands claimed by both Russia and ...

Aeroflot subsidiary Aurora Airline operated its first Boeing 737-500 technical flight to the Kuril Iturup Island airport in Russia’s Far East to test the new runway with a narrowbody medium-haul ...

Life in this archipelago marches to the beat of its own drummer: seals gather on rocks, bird colonies assemble from dawn till sunset, bamboo grows where it wants to and geysers spurt from volcanoes.