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Sakhalin Island

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Sakhalin Island

Island, extreme eastern Russia. Together with the Kuril Islands, it forms an administrative region of Russia. It is 589 mi (948 km) long and a maximum of 100 mi (160 km) wide; it covers 29,500 sq mi (76,400 sq km). Sakhalin was first settled by Russians in 1853, and it came under Russian control in 1875 when Japan ceded it in exchange for the Kuril Islands. Japan held the southern part from 1905 to 1945, then ceded it and the Kurils to the U.S.S.R. The economy is dominated by fishing, lumbering, coal mining, and the extraction of oil and natural gas in the north.
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Aso, the first Japanese premier to visit Sakhalin Island since the war, said both sides had vowed to resolve the islands issue and announced that Vladimir Putin, his Russian counterpart, would be visiting Japan in May.
Russia and Japan discuss island row by Aljazeera.net
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attended a ceremony to mark the launch of the plant, located on Sakhalin Island only about 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.
Russia launches major gas project near Japan by AFP / AFP Asian Edition
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attended a ceremony to mark the launch of the plant, located on Sakhalin Island only about 150 kilometres (90 miles) from Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.
Russia launches major gas project near Japan by AFP / AFP Global Edition
 
 
 
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