Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova on the 6th dismissed Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae's demand that Russia remove a monument commemorating the defeat of militarist Japan as 'absurd' and 'ignoring history', likening it to asking t

2026-09-07

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova on the 6th dismissed Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae's demand that Russia remove a monument commemorating the defeat of militarist Japan as 'absurd' and 'ignoring history', likening it to asking the wind not to blow or the sun to stop shining and saying the 'disease' of denying one's own history should not be spread to other countries.