The Kuril Islands are an integral part of #Russia and Japan’s recent statements on them should be viewed as a violation of Russia’s territorial integrity , State Duma (lower house of parliament) Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said in an interview with the Vesti news program. On August 13, President Vladimir #Putin personally visited the Kuril Island of Iturup for the first time. In response, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said that all the “northern territories