SHARP CHANGES DUE IN RUSSIAN GAS INDUSTRY

Russia's natural gas industry is undergoing drastic changes. The federation has set ambitious production goals for the next 12 years. To facilitate that effort, Moscow has given state owned Gazprom responsibility for handling all of Russia's natural gas exports under government contracts in 1993. Meantime, President Boris Yeltsin has signed a decree to reorganize Russia's gas associations into joint stock companies. When all figures are in, Moscow expects Russian gas production to