From Indian Punchline
By MK Bhadrakumar
''The recent visit by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to the Kurile islands was unnoticed by the Indian media or our pundits who keep an eagle’s eye on the Asia-Pacific. The point is, Medvedev’s visit bears an uncanny similarity in certain respects with the visit by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in October 2009 to Arunachal Pradesh — except that this is Medvedev’s second visit. (Medvedev first visited Kurile in his capacity as president in October 2010, which was a historic event because no Russian head of state ever visited the disputed territory that the former Soviet Union ‘acquired’ from Japan at the end of World War II, courtesy the San Francisco Treaty which stipulated that Japan as the defeated power should cede the islands but didn’t say to whom!)''
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