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Medvedev angers Japan with visit to disputed Kuril islands

Published on 01/11/2010

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Monday described a visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to the disputed Kuril Islands - an island chain seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War Two still claimed by Japan - as "very regrettable".