The Russian state-owned gas giant, led by executive chairman Alexei Miller, is now targeting higher investments of 853 billion roubles ($13.6 billion), an increase of around 11 billion roubles on the original estimate, under a revised investment plan disclosed on Tuesday.

Long-term financial investments account for 173.159 billion roubles of this figure, of which 10.4 billion roubles are earmarked for “acquisition of non-current assets”, according to a statement.

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