Russian president Vladimir Putin's welcome to the opening of a new pelagic processing factory on an island that is part of a territorial row with Japan could be a move to pressure Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the ongoing peace negotiations, Mainichi reported.
Earlier this week, Putin welcomed the start of operations at a new plant, built by Far Eastern fishing and processing giant Gidrostroy on the island of Shikotan, in the north Pacific Ocean [...]
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