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Berlin is abandoning its own national interests in order to satisfy the whims of its “allies,” the Russian president has said Germany is being bossed by its Western partners because it lacks sovereignty, and its policymakers demonstrate poor leadership skills, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at a meeting with young Russian scientists on Wednesday.

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.