All-Russian Committee for Defence of Kuriles (in Russian

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: Всероссийский комитет защиты Курил) is an association in Russia

Russia

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, formed by the 1992 Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1992)

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 of Sergei Skvortsov to politically counter the Japan

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ese claims to the Kuriles. It credits itself with having forced president Boris Yeltsin

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 to cancel a trip to Japan

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The association was reconstructed in the early 2000s, their website having press releases dating back to 2001. Skvortsov is the chairman of the association.