Overview
- Russian Senate deputy speaker Konstantin Kosachev said relations with Japan are nearly frozen but should be at least non-hostile.
- Kosachev stated that Russian parliamentarians are ready to resume a full dialogue with their Japanese counterparts.
- Japanese upper-house member Muneo Suzuki said Japan would consider restoring cooperation with Russia after a cease-fire in Ukraine, citing Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s priority on ending the fighting.
- Suzuki met in Moscow with Kosachev, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko, and held a working lunch with Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin.
- During the visit, Suzuki asked Russia to restore visits to the southern Kuril Islands for former Japanese residents with family graves there and wrote that Moscow’s festive illumination demonstrates Russia’s strength.