The Le Figaro newspaper said a legal probe had been opened to study complaints by Volgorad and Saratov, filed in 2006. T

The two regions alleged they did not get enough profits from a revenue-sharing contract dating back to a 1990 deal between former French president Francois Mitterrand and Russia’s Boris Yeltsin.

The paper quoted a lawyer for Total as saying there were no grounds for a dispute between the regions and the company. (Reuters)