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MOSCOW, August 26 (RIA Novosti) - Total Russian natural gas exports during the first seven months of 2005 totaled 101.2 billion cubic meters, up 11.2% year-on-year, an export subsidiary of the Russian gas monopoly said. According to a press release from Gazprom export subsidiary Gazexport, natural gas exports to non-CIS countries amounted to 92.1 billion cubic meters during the first seven months of 2005 vs. 87.9 billion in 2004. More than two thirds of this went to Western Europe, slightly up on last year. Eastern Europe received almost 30%, up half a percent from last year. Russia exported 9 billion cubic meters of gas to CIS, up threefold year-on-year.