TY  - BOOK
AU  - GALEOTTI Mark
TI  - Moscow dominates Russia-Japan relations
PY  - 2006///
KW  - RUSSIA
KW  - FOREIGN RELATIONS
KW  - JAPAN
N2  - Russia and Japan have 150 years of diplomatic relations but the balance appears to be in Russia's favour at present. Russia's vast oil and gas resources are enabling Moscow to be more assertive in dealings with Japan for example in the dispute over the Kuril Islands (a Japanese fisherman was shot dead by Russian border troops on 16 August 2006)
ER  -