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PETROZAVODSK, January 18, 2005. /Correspondent of RIA Novosti - Northwest Alexey Ukkone/. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov has called setting the question on return of parts of the territory of Russia, passed to the Soviet Union after the World War II to Finland "a provocation".
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has declared it on Tuesday in Petrozavodsk where he participated in the conference on frontier cooperation.
Sergey Lavrov has commented on the polls held by some nationalist organizations of Finland that declare necessity to return a part of the territory of Russia to Suomi, in particular, Karelian Isthmus in Leningrad region and some frontier districts in the Republic of Karelia.
"Those who initiate such interrogations are instigators who provoke reanimation of territorial claims and attempts to rewrite the history. It is very dangerous tendency," - the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has told.
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