While efforts to exert greater state control over a number of sectors of the Russian economy have made head- lines, the government is currently also proceeding with efforts to privatize large parts of the electricity sector. Since the beginning of attempts to liberalize, effective opposition to...

Observers of Russian state market relations typically consider the state as an entity engaged in creating rent-seeking opportunities for bureaucrats, or for the most powerful economic interests. The trajectory and outcomes of electricity sector reforms demonstrate the limits of this perspective...

Observers of Russian state market relations typically consider the state as an entity engaged in creating rent-seeking opportunities for bureaucrats or for the most powerful economic interests. The trajectory and outcomes of electricity sector reforms demonstrate the limits of this perspective...