June 2007 Putin Angry about the Kovykta Gas Field Dispute
In Germany for a G8 meeting, Putin said to reporters: "How long should we tolerate it if participants of that consortium do nothing to implement the license? This is not about BP, not about the foreign partner, but about all the shareholders that took the obligations to develop this field and, unfortunately, didn't meet the license terms. I won't even talk now about how the license was purchased. Let's leave this up to the conscience of those who did it a while ago, also in the early 1990s.