environment in Russia supports competition and to draw attention to the areas where further reform efforts would pay dividends … the scope for competition. However, ongoing work needs to focus on separating competitive and monopoly market segments and … regulators. Introducing an overarching competition policy would also help bring the issue of competition to centre stage and …

of sellers, but not related to restricting competition (the so-called exclusionary practices). The prevailing approaches …, give rise to the question of the need to find a new balance between the categories of restriction of competition and the …