"THE KURIL ISSUE": POLITOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
The present stage of the international relations is characterized by the sharp aggravation of opposition of Russia with the USA and their allies (among which Japan which supported sanctions against our country) provoked by the Ukrainian crisis. Strategic and economic value of the Kuril Islands increases in these conditions, in connection with anniversary of the Great Victory this question has also important ideological and moral and psychological value. “The Kuril issue” caused by unreasonable territorial claims of Japan disturbs normal development of the bilateral relations of Russia with the east neighbor. In article the scientific analysis of various aspects of “the Kuril issue” is given, national interests of Russia, certainly, in dialectic harmony with norms of international law and on the basis of estimates of competent experts have to become a basis for which decision. Authors consider history of territorial dispute, economic and strategic value of these territories, the legal, moral and political sides of the problem. Japan has neither legal, nor historical, moral bases for the claims. Russia has no right to show weakness and to make concessions in this question as it would mean audit of results of the World War II.