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At some point a few years ago Japan unilaterally stopped those talks and broke off contacts with us. It was not we who broke off contacts with Japan, it was the Japanese side that broke off contacts with us.

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Vladimir Putin
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 7
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