Alexey Miller's column

We are nearly finished with the drafting and signing of five-year programs for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion in 67 constituent entities of the Russian Federation. This is the scope of our work for the next five-year period. Within that period, the amount of funding for gas supply and gas infrastructure expansion programs on the part of Gazprom needs to be nearly tripled to RUB 526.1 billion. The linear pipelines that will be built in those five years will stretch for 24,400 kilometers in total. We will provide 3,632 localities with gas, and the gas penetration rate will reach 74.7 per cent.