Russian Citizen Waas Phoenix Nocardard, sailing to Hokkaido’s island from the Kunashir Kuenashir Island for refugee, filed a request for refugee status. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the sources of Japanese media close to what is happening.
In the near future, its deportation is not planned.
August 29, Japan officially notified Russia about the detention of a Russian citizen. The fact that he arrived at the Japanese Island Hokkaido was reported on August 20. According to the local news agency Kyodo, the knockard sailed from one of the Kuril Islands – Kunashir, which is included in the Sakhalin region. Kunashir is separated from Hokkaido Strait Nemuro. The Japanese island is located from Russian 25 kilometers to the West. The depth of the strait reaches 2.5 thousand meters.
After the appearance of information about the Nookard information, Russian diplomats were interested in what was happened. In the situation began to deal with the Russian Embassy. Later, the agency demanded Tokyo to provide access to a man to provide his diplomatic protection.