Russia Raps Japan's Request for Removal of Statue
Tokyo, Sept. 10 (Jiji Press)--A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson has criticized Tokyo's request to remove a new statue of a Soviet soldier destroying a stone marker bearing a chrysanthemum emblem, a symbol of Japan. Japan should not interfere in the matter, Maria Zakharova, director of the ministry's Information and Press Department, told a press conference Wednesday. The statue was...
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