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nuclear power iran stands firm on its right to peaceful as western officials tried to pressure of the country into submission jury and international conference in moscow tough new american and european sanctions against the islamic state are due to college of force within weeks. and our journey to the coral islands would stretch between japan and russia separating the pacific ocean from the sea of huts that's next on our. believe it the men running this front here post rarely have their mails on chantel a call to arms may come through it any time one fear is challenging being so far removed from the mainland. from the corella islands russia's eastern most territory is situated seven thousand and forty seven kilometers from moscow but little more than twenty kilometers off the coast of

japan. launched far for calling base a base here go ahead use a target locate it is heading towards the river mouth of the bees not responding to calls will be there in ten minutes message received. unit. as soon as the alert is sounded all hands are on deck sailing in the see around the coral islands even in a small boat without permission from the border guards is committing a grave offense there is a long running dispute over this territory between japan and russia japan has been demanding that russia return for islands of the range russia or insists that this area belongs to them the islands were legally transferred to the soviet union in the wake of world war two. one of the pacific's richest mortises nearby had something to protect and fight for.

getting to the corral islands is no easy task. the ever changing weather often delays regular flights. a motor ship is the only reliable means of transportation. it regularly takes people and supplies to the islands. most passengers carry big bags containing food. other basic necessities such items are very expensive on the islands given that the corals are far removed from the mainland. some of the passengers and locals returning from vacation others a fisherman. the design of the ship makes it possible for it to navigate even in the arctic. some of temperatures in the sea of a halts could never rise above eight to ten degrees celsius in winter ships have to pay their own way through the large ice flows. the engine slowed

a port bow engine slowed a port stern two of the stern to. captain alexander first studied maps of this area when he was still a naval cadet after the collapse of the soviet union he was surprised to find that the japanese maps of the corals different from the russian want. the japanese still have their own likes for the island is there no to coach us but i believe these are our atlas and they should be cold the way we measure them. on may the ninth people on each of the three inhabited islands of the courage in a shia town and they commemorate the foreman of world war two following victory over germany the first landing parties of the soviet army arrived on the in august nine hundred forty five. under an agreement with britain and the united states the soviet union declared war on japan in exchange for the annexation of those

territories. long. shortly after japan surrendered soviet army servicemen on the could else were joined by new inhabitants of the island most of them had come from siberia today there are some nine hundred thousand permanent residents on the islands of the could all change. many of the spectators and participants in the parade a grandchildren of those first settlers. this time it's been decided. not to show off military hardware instead the procession features off road vehicles provided by a club of cross-country racing fans it's the first ever parade on commissioner art and involving civilians as well as the military. thank. all froze vehicles have been the main means of transportation around can a shia ever since the arrival of the first settlers the elongated island extends for one hundred twenty three kilometers from peace to west there were no roads back

then for that reason it would take several days to get from one point on the island to the other. the first russian inhabitants could hardly have dreamt of racing on the sandbanks off road vehicles in the old times the strictest rules apply to those wishing to go to the pacific coast. only a short while ago want showers stood here within sight of each other however most of the island is still uninhabited just as it was under japanese administration. we all know one another the village is like a club i want to see progress on the carols because i can't say everything is ok but i don't think giving them up is a good idea for a start they'd love to have the girls but then they'd have to ask for something more i'm against that. the first settlers were told they were supposed to stay on the corals for five years the parents of the talia kosova who's employed at the

local history museum arrived here early in one thousand nine hundred six after the war natalia's parents were promised jobs with good salaries. some brought cows along the others barrels filled with nearby when the newcomers didn't have the foggiest idea about what life in the corals would be like a man for example if he managed to find the bottom of a barrel into a frying pan here it is. this family never thought of getting rid of it there were nine children in the family which but as this. until nine hundred forty seven russians and japanese worked together on the corals they even joined public perceptions marking soviet national holidays there was a time when the tally of kosovars father was a fisherman aboard an old japanese schooner many years later he met a fellow fisherman from japan who used to work alongside him in the same crew that

was after the collapse of the soviet union but nothing in britain which many years had passed when i found a japanese official men who worked with my father i raced for him to come to going to share island but it was a very moving scene two men who had once worked together before and had to go this separate ways they had each other and burst into tears. by mid one nine hundred forty seven japanese living on the coral islands had been expelled the move had been approved by stalin many of them thought they could return some time later but the japanese villages were raised to the ground there was nowhere to go back to . before his retirement on a totally motor off was a troll a captain several years ago his counterparts from japan showed him an old map of can a ship pinpointing what were once japanese settlements it sparked on a tony's interest in archaeology.

with this imperial japanese qahtani bull as poetry written on it and a totally adds new exhibits to his personal collection nearly every time he comes here it's close to a roll called devil's finger most of the finds a household items. if you get this medicine bottle dates back to the late one thousand nine hundred sheree. they were only allowed to take a mere twenty kilos of their belongings back to japan a group of japanese visited us in the village of you and i we were digging up things at the time a broken piece of crockery was given to one of the japanese women of our house used to stand right there you see she embraced us and broke into tears russian seafarers first visited the corals in the late seventeenth century they wrote detailed accounts of their experiences the japanese had not settled on the islands at that

time here the russian voyages met the i knew the indigenous people of the corals who looked more european than japanese the language they spoke different from japanese as well. today the cruel nature reserve covers an area where the i knew used to live biologist at reno nev a dome sky a plans new ecologically friendly palms across the island each spring she walks the mountainous palms before the arrival of the tourists it rain takes her six year old daughter nadia on such expeditions cannot sit in a certain means black forest in the ajna language there are indeed very many quantifiers on the island generally speaking most of the place names on the islands are not at all of japanese origin and they are derived from the final language even the words come from that language the i knew fourth quarter means person ok let's get going my quota of flip. this place in central can ashia is called the

dog's head because of the hill on the horizon. anyone ascending the slope has to cross over very small ditches they remind us of the fortifications that once stood around our new settlements russian merchants had a long history of trade with the i knew after the japanese seas the islands the forcible assimilation of the indigenous population began. but then he says now this is one of the places where i know ancestors lived a long time ago did they did they frankly speaking nobody knows who those people or but they are considered to be the iranian people and they had a fortress on this mountain and these are the defense fortifications resembling ditches or pits not only. the.

teachers in the local school don't need to both coming up with a theme for art class they simply let the youngsters show their vision of the corals in their drawings the result is a kaleidoscope of different pictures detailing the oceans and volcanoes something that most children in russia only see on postcards but these children need only look out of the window. later the pupils will give some of their creations to the japanese who visit the corals several times a year the school children prepare performances for each of these visits. for. you ok start softly go to the climax and then finish softly again. the. fears i has graduated from music school she's rehearsing the song that she will sing to

welcome a japanese delegation during a visit to the corals previously saffir sang at a concert in japan when she was visiting hokkaido on the. the book at aware that was the first time that a delegation of children. i sang in japanese i felt a bit shy because of their language anyway saying songs in japanese as well as russian the japanese were pleasantly surprised me. in spite of the mutual visits and cultural exchange programs. the territorial dispute has gained new momentum in recent years. the mainland is well looked after but here we live almost in the wild which i thought i would only stick around here for a while before i knew it i had spent thirty three years in this place my children

have all grown up you could say i've taken a route here. despite attempts by soviet authorities to way down to memories of the japanese chapter in the history of the corals local settlers have been able to preserve several old cemeteries they look after them even though they're situated far away from modern day settlements to high winds that blow with the arrival of spring often ruin the flowers planted near the graves only a handful of locals speak japanese but many others don't need translators to understand the meaning of some symbols and things. but the island is strewn with such graves there are no archaeologists or other people capable of identifying them but one thing is clear what this symbol means that the man belonged to the some right says that he was

a warrior most of. them with. the soviet authorities took an earnest view of the need to defend the coral islands. there was a possibility that a military conflict could erupt between the soviet union and japan since then these relics of the cold war have fallen into decay. today their child's playthings but in their prime these tanks were carefully disguised artillery residents were not supposed to come anywhere near them that there aren't many cold war artifacts around here now though years ago they were scattered all over the seashore no peace treaty has yet been signed with japan and these artifacts serve as a reminder of the fact that the reason the war there is no peace eva. irina's daughter now idea was born on the coral islands in the spring of two thousand and twelve japan's government softened it sounds on the russian island is no longer is

the presence of nadia and her fellow residents a case of so-called illegitimate occupation as for russia its position on the kudo's remains unchanged the outcome of world war two is final and is not subject to revision. well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from

around russia we've got the future covered. a coast guard base according to a satellite intelligence report received by a border guard patrol boat a ship suspected of poaching crams has been spotted several kilometers off the coleridge. in a recent development the border guard service has been tasked with protecting marine biology as well as monitoring the buddha after receiving the poaches coordinates the patrol boat captain or does his crew to a more patrol vessels to some of the speediest ships capable of traveling more than fifty kilometers an hour. one crewman on the stern flank sit down. a motorboat is lowered from the patrol vessel the group of coast guard inspectors needs to make haste they have to reach the offending ship before the catch is thrown overboard.

and this poaching vessel is an old and battered japanese schooner flying the flag of cambodia. coaches often register their vessels in small asian countries which. agreed to register any ship no matter how the latter dated it might be. clear that the satellite report is correct the hole contains around seventeen tons of young crabs they will have to be released back into the sea the captain has no permission to fish in russian territorial waters. to manipulate what do you expect me to do i see no point in taking the blame and doing somebody else a favor in the process. the hole is packed full even if the catch is legal it's not allowed to catch crabs in such huge quantities

scales are brought out to check the exact weight of the contraband. finally the border guards tell the captain of the trespassing ship to release the crabs into the sea. to a designated depth where they can survive in a natural environment. biologists are going to examine the crabs to determine which part of the sea they came from. find out whether or not the catch originated from russian to resell real waters and if it was permitted. it was not legal and there are no proper documents then this is a criminal offense. after the collapse of the soviet union many people inhabiting the coral islands turned to poaching as a means of survival they used outdated schooners to take their catch to japan for sale ship graveyards can be seen scattered across the entire shoreline of could ashia. if not many left in search of employment more people went

after an earthquake shook the island people stopped coming here. could assures economy is only just beginning to get back on its feet. a type of. seaweed called and found here is washed ashore here in soviet times it was used to make a confectionery ingredient called i gotta go. today it's easier to come by fragments of japanese crockery than find traces of i got i got production. even so this place is still the tourist attraction it was the scene of the first episode japanese conflict dating back to the early nineteenth century. did they use the saturn cannot say or is only twenty kilometers from japan in one thousand eleven russian explorer versus illegal amine was captured in the chip a nice fortress that's dude on these banks he was arrested simply because he had

ventured to commerce or governing and spend more than two years in captivity and became the first man to keep alive. whatever little is left of the japanese fortress is now on display in the front garden outside the home of amateur archaeologist anatoly moment of he lives in the village of yours. his tiny plot of land depicts one of the first attempts to reconcile the brush and japanese positions on the island's history that they're going to this a pillar used to stand in the village of goal of nino. its japanese name was an eva. swell in. a few years ago we brought it here and have kept it since then i brought this cherry tree from the former japanese village of overnight you know what that though a cube is an old rock japanese anchor for schooners this work on the right next to

it is a russian steam ship anchor reporter because these two co booky actors were painted on the saki cups but i had dug up here i asked a local artist to make the stencil. most of the visitors here are pregnant women and young mothers with problems i can see their admiring eyes as. they pause here hear some of the villagers make approving remarks but others shout at me saying you are crazy ok i am crazy if you will with that. many locals left the coral islands in the one nine hundred ninety s. but painter anatoly settle here at that time he made his home in an old factory office in two thousand and six and italy experienced the horror of a typhoon. it was in october two thousand and six the waves went up as far as those hills the herd you know everything was washed away five tons slabs were floating around. that gate was gone. a car left here but my neighbor.

was overturned the wind build a large stone into a barn with but. all of my paintings felt kind of. strange as it may seem high hopes of. an atoll he prefers a reclusive lifestyle. he only visits the nearby village of use a few times a year the artist considers the corals an ideal place for his creative work nothing here distracts him in fact anatoly spends little time in the workshop rather he likes to work on the seashore he paints at any time of year come rain or snow this will figure out the emperor's bath tub is some thirty metres away they say japan's emperor used to be brought here in ninety. three. bought up a bit hollowed out of the room when the tide comes in and it's filled with water when it goes out it gets warm. back in the eighteenth century russian explorers

built a chapel on the corals later the japanese tore it down. it was only in the one nine hundred ninety s. that the orthodox church was restored here the children among the current congregation were born on the currents. the baby boom is the first. significant increase in the population of the corals in twenty years the reason is simple the fate of the was up in the air after the soviet union collapse. now locals don't need to worry about the future of their children today it's abundantly clear that the islands will continue to be russian territory. the docks church will was fashioned out of an old meeting hold its bells with selvedge from discarded ships. the locals often express their displeasure with the region severe climate lack of

roads it's outlying geographic position and high prices in the shops but paradoxically they flatly dismiss the idea that they might have to leave this place for good. fishing is still the main source of income on the corals these waters yield some of the best catches in the sea of a hot. early in the morning a crew of fishermen check their nets the catch is meager in the spring the spawning season is still about a month away besides local fishermen a still dealing with the consequences of the reckless overfishing of previous years . this is a good one. it's true the poachers have been reined in somewhat but we don't get the sort of fish that we used to. nowadays you never know if you will catch anything at all here and yet this is a goldmine of an island if you work hard. to feel the

music graduate from. was meant to welcome the japanese delegation on the shore unfortunately the visit was called off due to stormy weather in japan. coming. down the. hall now. she's. home more. long enough though my. home. in this folks' home originated in japan but when russia adopted it became so popular that its origins were mostly forgotten. sophia will soon bid farewell to the. she will head to the mainland where she hopes to earn a place at a music university for the entrance exam she will sing the same japanese song. the weather turns foul towards evening the storm that formed over japan will soon

reach the curls a passenger ship is getting ready to depart from can assure island eager fucker deneuve leaving port request permission for departure. departure approved. as the ship leaves the port of qana share it retraces the same groups that seventeenth century russian voyages used on their way home after the discovery of the coraline limbs today each sailing can transfer two hundred people to the mainland those years when people were all too eager to buy one way tickets have long since passed. the camp in gives the command to raise the russian flag as the boat departs the ship will return two days later it shuttles four times a week in any weather the whole year round demonstrating russia's clear desire to keep its eastern most territories the korea license.