Word: sakhaliners
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...central Asia began to crumble, Russia expanded eastward, pushing to the Pacific in search of natural resources and territory. In the era of high imperialism, when the other European powers were carving up Africa, America and Asia, the Russians established an empire stretching from Poland and Finland to Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands in the Pacific...
When the Giliaks of Sakhalin island and the Koryaks of Kamchatka rubbed the sleep out of their eyes one morning last week, they rubbed a second time and looked up in surprise: the rising sun was black. It was totally eclipsed by the moon. As eclipses go, this one had relatively few observers-at least of its totality. The path of complete blackout crossed the most sparsely inhabited wastes of Asia and North America, favoring only Canada's southeasternmost provinces before crossing the Atlantic to fizzle out at sunset near the Azores. Most big-city dwellers had to content...
...pact of neutrality with Moscow in 1941, Stalin abrogated it in the closing days of World War II by sending the Red Army into industrialized Manchuria to strip it bare. Nor have the Japanese forgotten that the Russians took advantage of them at war's end by seizing South Sakhalin, the Kurils, the Habomais and the islands of Shikotan off Japan's northern coast. Of course, with U.S.-Japanese relations deteriorating and with Chinese hostility directed against both Moscow and Tokyo, the Soviets may yet decide to play a trump card by returning at least the Habomais and Shikotan...
...investigator, Nikolai Danilov, left his work on the island of Sakhalin and took a job as a legal-aid consultant in a Leningrad law office. He was arrested and confined in a special insane asylum for political offenders, where he is being "treated" with insulin shock...
...remind you of the Russian occupation of the southern half of Sakhalin Island (north of Japan) and the Kuril Islands (northeast of Japan)? These territories, formerly owned and populated by Japan, are now exclusively occupied by the Soviet Union. Japanese fishing boats that stray too close to these islands are often seized or fired upon. To the best of my knowledge, both areas are sealed off from normal tourist or business travelers...