Inhabitants Sakhalin Region opposed renaming of Kuriles

Approximate time of reading: 2 minutes Moscow, on May 26 - newspaper "Argumenty i fakty". Inhabitants Sakhalin Region do not approve the offer on renaming of Kuriles, reports information agency "Interfaks". Such initiative took Roskosmos chapter ROSKOSMOS STATE CORPORATION Dmitry Rogozin and the deputy of State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Sergei Mikhaylovich Mironov. Dmitry Rogozin suggested to rename a number of the southern Kuril Islands and to call them in honor of the ships and heroes of Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905. In social networks locals actively discuss this idea. Besides, about two thousand residents of Sakhalin took part in Internet poll of the local Sakhalin.Info edition by results of which 91% consider...