
ISTANBUL -- The head of Russia's lower parliamentary house on Wednesday slammed Japan as an "unfriendly nation" that is benefiting from its interests in the Sakhalin-2 energy project.
Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the State Duma, singled out Japan, the U.K. and the Netherlands for receiving "huge profits" from the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, according to the Duma's website.