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https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/territory/index.html https://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/territory/index.... I wasn't aware of the controve

• app4soft 4y ago
  You may be surprised, but in the 1920s there was a border between "Green Ukraine" (Ukrainian colonies) and Karafuto Prefecture (external territory of Japan) in the middle of Sakhalin Island.[0,1,2] [0] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1288133055639683072 https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1288133055639683072 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Ukraine [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karafuto_Prefecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karafuto_Prefecture
  • baybal2 4y ago
    The entirety of russian far east is not majority russian. It was colonized using interned Ukrainians, Poles, and other captive Eastern Europeans. I spent my early childhood in Vladivostok. The city, and the region has a very different air than the rest of russia. Even places considered "oriental" in russia, like Siberia, or Astrakhan feel much more like the rest of central russia, than parts of russia east of Blahoveschensk.
• elihu 4y ago
  I'd heard of Kuril islands dispute. The "northern territories" are apparently the four of the Kuril islands that Japan claims as their own but Russia occupies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute