I'm not aware that there were. When I retired, I left the project, and it was still in mid-stream. It took a year or two to get the thing up and running, because there was a tendency on the Russian side to hire academics with the money that was funding them rather than facilitate the public service connector, and it took a couple of years to iron that out. So there was a slow start-up for the project, and as I say, I left in mid-stream.
On June 14th, 2007. See this statement in context.