Russian RBC newspaper reported on November 16, the Russian Federation and Statistics Department said here today that Russian natural gas and associated gas production between October and January increased by 13.5 compared to the same period last year, reaching 526 billion cubic meters. russia's natural gas and associated gas production in October increased by 3.7 over the same period last year and 19.8 more than in September this year. meanwhile, according to the report on the monitoring of the Russian Energy Ministry said, russia's natural gas production in the first 10 months of this year increased by 14.2 over the same period last year, reaching 527.062 billion cubic meters, including russia's natural gas industry joint - stock company's natural gas output increased 13.1 over the same period last year, reaching 412.133 billion cubic meters.