Russian Federation trades land for benefits

I've read that there was some sort of proposal to sell Kaliningrad back to a newly unified Germany following the collapse of the Cold War.

The German response was more or less "we've gotta spend so much money fixing what we already took back in and now you want us to take THAT too?".

What if Russia really started pushing exchanges like this to get more aid, trade concessions, loans, direct cash transfers, etc?

Japan and Russia have a territorial dispute over the Southern Kurils for example.
 
Not sure how major the claim by Japan is. Read somewhere they might have kept it up partially due to some prodding by the US, with officials giving hypotheticals on how them renouncing their claim to those islands might end up with their losing claims to the Ryukyu islands. Possible someone did hint it to the Japanese, or they thought of it themselves, though likely it was never anything official. And if the Russian Federation started selling land it might undermine their crushing areas trying to get independence. Anyways, the Russians might as well just sell some of their nuclear stockpile. They will need the cash to take advantage of any trade deals.
 
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