MEDVEDEV IS GOING TO THE KURILS; JAPAN IS UNHAPPY

IN A FOG 

TWO MEN IN A BOAT IN THE FOG 

ON THE SEA OF OKHOTSK, OFF THE 

ISLAND OF SAKHALIN, RUSSIA 

It has been announced that Russian president Dmitry Medvedev will be visiting the Kuril Islands, part of Sakhalin oblast' in the Russian Far East.   Tokyo is said to find the visit provocative -- a Russian president visiting Japan's "Northern Territories." 

World War II is not ended for Russia and Japan because of these disputed islands, or islets.