Theoretical background for reasons that cause the owner of essential facilities to restrict competition in downstream … markets provided. Examining the particular Russian antitrust cases the author discusses whether the essential facilities …

environment in Russia supports competition and to draw attention to the areas where further reform efforts would pay dividends … role of the state enterprise sector in markets that are inherently competitive and reinvigorated efforts to liberalise … the scope for competition. However, ongoing work needs to focus on separating competitive and monopoly market segments and …

Working definitions of industrial and competition policy are provided. Based on definition variants of relations of two …