At the end of 2023, Gazprom recorded a loss for the first time in 25 years. The Government instructed to prepare a directive on Gazprom's non-payment of dividends for the previous year. The company last paid a dividend for the first half of 2022. At that time, the payout totaled ₽1.208 trillion, or ₽51.03 per share. These were the record dividend payments in the history of the Russian stock market.