{"id":101623,"date":"2026-08-13T10:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=101623"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:35:12","slug":"putin-visits-disputed-kuril-islands-tass-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/putin-visits-disputed-kuril-islands-tass-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin visits disputed Kuril Islands, TASS reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Iturup, an island \u200bin the disputed Kuril Islands chain claimed by both Russia and Japan, state news agency TASS said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbors never signed \u200ca formal \u200cWorld War \u200bTwo \u200cpeace treaty \u2060as \u200bthe main \u2060hurdle was the unresolved territorial dispute over the islands, which Japan calls the Northern Territories.<\/p>\n<p>On the trip, described by \u2060TASS as Putin\u2019s \u200cfirst in \u200cperson to the island \u200bchain, \u200che visited the Yasny \u200cfish-processing plant on Iturup, after overseeing navy drills in Russia\u2019s far east.<\/p>\n<p>Vesti TV channel \u200cimages showed Putin in a dark suit, standing in \u2060a \u2060room looking at two large tuna and halibut on a table, as two officials spoke about fishing and the migratory behavior of fish. He also stopped to try local fish \u200broe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Iturup, an island \u200bin the disputed Kuril Islands chain claimed by both Russia and Japan, state news agency TASS said on Thursday. The neighbors never signed \u200ca formal \u200cWorld War \u200bTwo \u200cpeace treaty \u2060as \u200bthe main \u2060hurdle was the unresolved territorial dispute over the islands, which Japan calls the Northern &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":101636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101637,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101623\/revisions\/101637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}