他还希望俄罗斯归还千岛群岛最南端拥有丰富资源的北方四岛。 1945年美国在广岛和长期投下原子弹后，苏联占领了这四个岛屿。
He also wants Russia to return its southernmost Kuril Islands – a resource-rich area known as the Northern Territories in Japan – which the Soviet Union seized just after the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.