Editing Foreign relations of Russia (section)

=== Oceania ===
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|{{flag|Australia}}||<!--Date started-->1942||See [[Australia–Russia relations]]

* The first Australian embassy in Moscow opened in 1943. Australia has an [[Embassy of Australia in Moscow|embassy in Moscow]] and two honorary consulates (in [[Saint Petersburg]] and [[Vladivostok]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.russia.embassy.gov.au/|title=Homepage – Australian Embassy|work=embassy.gov.au|access-date=7 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307013616/http://russia.embassy.gov.au/|archive-date=7 March 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Russia has an embassy in Canberra and a consulate-general in Sydney.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.australia.mid.ru/ |title=Посольство России в Австралии |website=Australia.mid.ru |access-date=22 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116073939/http://www.australia.mid.ru/ |archive-date=16 January 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/russia/index.html Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade about the relation with Russia]
* Australia is on Russia's [[Unfriendly countries list|list of unfriendly countries]]
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|{{flag|Nauru}}||<!--Date started-->||See [[Nauru–Russia relations]]
Russia is represented in Nauru through its embassy in [[Canberra, Australia|Canberra (Australia)]]. Russia's ambassador to Australia [[Alexander Blokhin (diplomat)|Alexander Blokhin]] serves concurrently as Russia's non-resident ambassador to Nauru (as well as to [[Fiji]] and [[Vanuatu]]).

Nauru's banks are said to have provided services to the mafia in Russia during the 1990s; over the course of the 1990s, approximately 70 billion U.S. dollars owned by Russian mafia were held in Nauru banks.<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/18/1082226623418.html Pacific nation Nauru on brink of collapse] The Age, 18 April 2004</ref>

In 2009, Nauru became the fourth country to recognize the states of [[Abkhazia]] and [[South Ossetia]], breakaway regions of [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. Only three other UN member states have done so. Russia was reported to be giving Nauru $50M in humanitarian aid in exchange.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/14/nauro-recognises-abkhazia-south-ossetia|title=Tiny Nauru struts world stage by recognising breakaway republics|last=Harding|first=Luke|date=14 December 2009|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=14 December 2009 | location=London}}</ref>
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|{{flag|New Zealand}}||<!--Start date--> 1943||See [[New Zealand–Russia relations]]
* New Zealand has an [[Embassy of New Zealand in Moscow|embassy in Moscow]] and an honorary consulate in [[Vladivostok]].
* Russia has an embassy in Wellington.
* Both countries are members of [[APEC]].
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|{{flag|Tonga}}||1976<!--Date started-->||See [[Russia–Tonga relations]]
The Kingdom of Tonga and the [[Soviet Union]] established formal diplomatic relations in 1976.  Tonga was the first [[Pacific Island]] country to establish relations with the USSR.  The USSR was dissolved in 1991 and was succeeded by Russia as the successor state.

On 2 October 2005, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Tonga ST T. Tupou exchanged telegrams offering congratulations on the occasion of 30th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between the two nations. In his heads of foreign ministries of Russia and Tonga expressed confidence in further development of Russian-Tongan relations in the interests of the peoples of both countries and strengthen peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mid.ru/ns-rafr.nsf/89414576079db559432569d8002421fc/432569a400373407c325709000373b1b?OpenDocument |title=On the exchange of greeting telegrams between the Foreign Ministers of the Russian Federation and the Kingdom of Tonga on the occasion of 30 anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations}}</ref>

Russia has a non-resident ambassador based in Canberra, Australia.
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|{{flag|Vanuatu}}||<!--started-->30 June 1986
|See [[Russia–Vanuatu relations]] or [[Soviet Union–Vanuatu relations]]
* In 1987, Vanuatu authorised Soviet vessels to fish within Vanuatu's Exclusive Economic Zone, in exchange for economic aid. The agreement lapsed the following year, and was not renewed, due to disagreements over the price to be paid for fishing rights by the USSR.<ref>HUFFER, Elise 1993, pp.272-282"</ref>
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