This cinematic aerial view captures the raw beauty of Iturup Island in the Kuril Islands, where steep white cliffs meet lush ...

Explorers on the disputed Kurile Islands have uncovered heavy guns and piles of explosives left in the jungle after World War II. 1 Tracked vehicles crawl along a beach on Iturup Island, one of the ...

Scanning a moving blip on the screen that indicated an airliner, Japanese defense command radar operators on the northernmost tip of Hokkaido Island radioed a warning. “You are off course,” chided the ...

The airfield on the Iturup Island (Sakhalin region) belongs to the Russian Defense Ministry and is also used by civil aviation as an airport to receive regular passenger flights from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk ...

Aeroflot subsidiary Aurora Airline operated its first Boeing 737-500 technical flight to the Kuril Iturup Island airport in Russia’s Far East to test the new runway with a narrowbody medium-haul ...

The hikers – nine women and a man – have now been missing for two nights on Iturup island in Russia’s Far East. The group had set out on an 11-day trek to summit the 1132 metres Baransky volcano, ...

Iturup in Russia captivates with rugged terrain, untouched beauty, and raw wilderness. Gold rate today (March 16, 2026): Check 24K, 22K, 18K, 14K prices in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad ...

As Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe holds talks in Russia with President Vladimir Putin, the BBC looks at the background to the long-standing territorial dispute between the two nations. The island ...

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, September 24. /TASS/. The blaze on the Pyotr Zhitnikov depot ship near Iturup has spread to neighboring rooms after containment, the press service of the Federal Agency for Marine ...