MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Gazprom said on Monday its natural gas exports outside ex-Soviet European countries and including Turkey totalled 62.2 billion cubic metres (bcm) between January 1 and April 15, a rise of 6.3 percent from a year earlier.

Gas output in the same period rose 7.5 percent year on year to 155.8 bcm. On April 1-15, gas output reached 21.9 bcm, up 22.4 percent compared with the same period in 2017.

(Reporting by Maxim Rodionov; writing by Maria Kiselyova; editing by Polina Devitt)