Moscow has expressed to the Ambassador of Japan of Touchesa Kazuki protest in connection with the situation around the South Kuril Islands, told in the foreign Ministry. before the policy was invited to depodesta. Deputy foreign Minister Igor Morgulov told the Ambassador that explanations Tokyo on the issue of the visit of the Russian leadership on the Southern Kuriles border with attempt of intervention in the internal Affairs of the country. He said that the Southern Kuril Islands legally, it is the territory of Russia according to the results of the Second world war. at the same time Kozuki handed a note expressing " a decisive protest in connection with violations in the South Kuril Islands, the Japanese participants admitted visa-free exchanges with the Islands. The Japanese side pointed to the need for an honest approach to the formation of visa-free groups." It is noted that the Japanese Ambassador " promised to inform about his performance in Tokyo." The dialogue between Russia and Japan for many years overshadows the lack of a peace Treaty. Japan claims the Islands of Kunashir, Shikotan, Iturup and Habomai, indicating bilateral Treatise on trade and borders of 1855. The return of the Islands Tokyo made it a condition of concluding peace with Russia, which at the end of the Second world war and was not signed. The position of the capital of Russia is that the Southern Kuril Islands became part of the USSR according to the results of the Second world war and the Russian sovereignty over them with appropriate international legal design, not subject to doubt. in November 2018 in Singapore hosted a meeting of Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe. The parties agreed to accelerate the negotiation process on the basis of mutual Declaration of 1956, which was a major concession from Japan. <span style="color:darkgray