The Sakhalin official who “gave” the Kuril Islands to the Japanese was fired
At one of the meetings in the government of the Sakhalin region on October 14, a map was shown on which the Kuril Islands (Shikotan, Kunashir and Iturup) were painted in the same color as Japan.
Ponomarev, the chairman of the Sakhalin branch of the Russian Geographical Society, was the first to draw attention to this. He was supported by Russian State Duma deputy Alexey Kornienko, who sent inquiries to the governor and prosecutor of Sakhalin. There was an uproar on social networks.
The reaction came a week later. Today, a message was published on the official website of the government of the Sakhalin region that an employee of the Sakhalin Fisheries Agency, who made a “gross cartographic error,” has been fired.
The dismissal allegedly occurred immediately after a meeting of the working group to support entrepreneurship in the Sakhalin region. And today the head of the fisheries agency, Ivan Radchenko, was reprimanded.
“These slides were regarded by the meeting participants as unacceptable negligence. Governor Valery Limarenko was extremely outraged by this misconduct and demanded an immediate official investigation,” the statement says.
The Sakhalin government reminds that the overwhelming majority of islanders voted for amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which enshrines the territorial integrity of the country.
Today, the new Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshihide Suga, said that he intends to successfully complete negotiations on the fate of the southern part of the Kuril Islands and will strive for the comprehensive development of relations with Russia, including the signing of a peace treaty.
Sakhalin and Far Eastern telegram channels write that Japan has long and persistently used “soft power” in the Kuril Islands, holding various cultural events and luring visa-free trips.
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