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.