GORKI, December 17 (Itar-Tass) - The investment program of Russia’s gas giant Gazprom in 2014 will exceed 800 billion roubles (roughly 27 billion dollars), Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.

“The investment program will keep growing steadily. In 2016 it will achieve a level of one trillion roubles (over 30 billion dollars),” Medvedev said at a conference devoted to the gas monopoly’s investment program.