It is based on moral guidelines that have been passed down through generations, the president said The basis of Russia’s national identity is respect for the past and loyalty to long-standing traditions, President Vladimir Putin has suggested, accusing a number of states of aggressively attempting to rewrite world history.

Moscow has approved their participation in a bid to rapidly restore production at Sakhalin-1 The Russian government has allowed India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Japan’s Sakhalin Oil and Gas Development Co (SODECO) to keep their stakes under the new domestic operator of the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project on Monday.

Asian countries now account for two thirds of Russia’s total seaborne oil exports, while supplies to the EU continue to decline, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Sea deliveries to Asia reportedly accounted for less than two fifths of Russian seaborne crude sales before the EU, the US and their allies introduced sanctions over Moscow’s military operation…