Exports of Russian gas to distant foreign countries fell by almost three times.

Russia cut gas exports in January-February 2009 to 61.4 per cent over the same period in 2008. Reported in statistical reporting of Federal Customs Service (FCS). Deliveries of gas to CIS countries fell while at 56.4 percent. Total exports amounted to 14.7 billion cubic meters, or about $ 5 billion in cash.
Previously published data central dispatch control of fuel and energy complex (CDU TEK). According to statistics, CDU, three months in 2009, gas exports fell by half to 28.2 billion cubic meters, of which in March was delivered 12 billion cubic meters.
The sharp decline in the delivered gas is primarily due to the suspension of supplies through Ukraine in January 2009. Exports out of the fact that the contract between Gazprom and Naftogaz "for 2009 has not been signed. As a result, from 7 to 20 January, all fuel supplies through Ukraine to Europe were halted. In addition, a role played, and the fall in gas demand due to global economic crisis, and warmer winters.
According to Gazprom, almost 90 per cent of the market of gas exports in 2009 total volume of gas supplies abroad should be reduced by 20 billion cubic meters, or more than 15 percent. Exports of "Gazprom" in the far abroad from January 1 to March 15, 2009 amounted to 24 billion cubic meters of gas to 40 billion cubic meters a year earlier.