That as well as why Russian Federation gave Japan. Portsmouth world

On June 7 President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt suggested belligerent parties to gather for conference for discussion of conditions of the world. Tokyo immediately agreed on the offer Washington D.C.. In the circumstances on May 30 (on June 12) Nikolay II was compelled to accept the invitation to peace talks. As a place of negotiations on insistance Japan the city Portsmouth on the Pacific coast of United States of America was chosen — Japanese did not wish to transfer them to Europe. Defeat Russian Federation in Russian-Japanese war was obvious, a foreign policy situation on the eve of negotiations — unsatisfactory. The Russian delegation on the Russian-Japanese...