PUTIN - AHMADINEJAD

The international press confirms reports that "Russia rules out the use of force against Iran if Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime rejects proposals that it scrap its nuclear enrichment program" [source: foreign minister Lavrov's statements to both the Novosti News Agency and Moscow's Nezavisimaya Gazeta].
These reports reflect a London Times/AP Teheran report (May 29, 2007) citing Russia's security council head, Igor Ivanov, who told Iranian television "that his country opposes any use of force against Iran over its controversial nuclear program".
Russia's unrelenting support for the Iranian fascist dictatorship is reminiscent of the well documented support given by Stalin and Molotov to The Psychopathic God Adolf Hitler and his Nazi dictatorship, up to and beyond 22 June 1941!

During the nocturnal negotiations of the Nazi-Soviet Pact (23-24 August 1939) Stalin voiced the sentiment "that it was of considerable advantage to have a strong Germany as neighbor and in case of armed showdown with the bourgeois democracies the interests of the Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany would run parallel to each other and Russia would never stand for Hitler's Germany getting into a difficult position". The ceremony ended with Stalin's personal toast "to the long life of the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler"!

In view of the World's bitter experience of the consequences of Russian diplomatic cunning; the free media should exploit the upcoming August anniversary of the nefarious Stalin-Hitler compacts, to stress the consequences which will inevitably prevail - if Russia insists on callously pursuing policies which appease Iran's quest to obtain nuclear weapons capability.

JAPAN - RUSSIA (unresolved conflict)

Th Japanese Defense Minister, Fumio Kyuma, revealed that the impulse for Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the impending Russian seizure of mainland Japan [AP 30 June 2007].

In April 1941 [two months prior to 'Operation Barbarossa'] Russia skillfully neutralized the military threat from the East by means of signing a Neutrality Pact with Japan . Thus when the Wehrmacht swept into Russia on 22 June 1941 , Hitler was unable to mobilize a Japanese attack against Russia 's rear, despite the provisions of the 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact & 1940 Tripartite Pact.
Nonetheless, when Japan opened its campaign of aggression against the USA and Britain in the Pacific and Far East, Hitler & Mussolini gratuitously honored the Pacts by declaring war on the USA [four days after Pearl Harbor ]!
After cessation of hostilities in Europe in May 1945, the Western Allies were still heavily engaged in the Far East and US Forces were still far from realizing a successful invasion of the Japanese mainland.
However, for the Russians to leap onto Japanese soil was physically an easy operation: indeed the total occupation of Japan was such a tempting prize that moves indicating imminent abrogation of its Neutrality Pact were discerned in the summer of 1945 - prior the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6. Indeed, history records that Russian forces commenced their occupation of Japanese territories on August 8 - which they refuse to vacate to this day!
The atom bombing of Nagasaki the following day - which brought about Japan's acceptance of surrender terms on August 14 and landing of US forces on mainland Japan on August 26 - also constituted a warning to Russia not to progress further with its unprovoked aggression against a defeated Japan !
On September 2, 1945, the USS Missouri anchored in Tokyo Bay, aboard which the Japanese signed the formal terms of their surrender to [General Douglas McArthur of] the United States of America.

Thus were the Japanese spared decades of the nasty fate rendered by Russia to the nations of Eastern Europe.