" sector while maintaining state ownership and control of the monopoly "grid". This paper examines the details of reform and … restructuring in the context of the international experience with reform and restructuring in these two sectors, and considers the … role of the Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy in reform, both in the past as an "advocate for competition" within the …

Rail transport accounts for 80% of all freight in Russia and its performance is critical to overall economic growth …. Though the railways have been starved of investment they are now in the process of rapid reform, and maintaining momentum …