Northern TerritoriesTuesday, May 12, 2009 Northern Territories dispute lives on self-righteous deadlock Visits to Japan by Soviet and Russian leaders over the years have done little to break the Northern Territories deadlock — Moscow's refusal of Tokyo's demand for two large islands at the southern end of the Kuril Island chain occupied by Soviet troops in 1945, as a condition for a peace treaty with Moscow. Is the v
