• He was notable, in particular, for doing nothing to bring to heel the country's huge natural-gas monopoly, Gazprom, the company he used to run (see article).

    ECONOMIST: Collapse in Russia | The

  • First, many transporters enjoy a natural or state-granted monopoly and need to be restrained from exercising it with too much abandon.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • Group-buying is not a natural monopoly, yet there is a limit to how many group-buying websites consumers will use.

    FORBES: Online Group Buying's Need For Speed

  • Moves by the Kremlin to nationalize the country's energy sector by pressuring a Royal Dutch Shell-led consortium to relinquish control of the Sahalin-2 natural gas project to Russia's state-controlled monopoly Gazprom, and Putin's meetings with Arab leaders last month to explore the creation of a "natural gas cartel" demonstrate an authoritarian view of energy management that is undeniably confrontational.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Energy Squeeze

  • Further complicating matters, Shell was also negotiating to trade half of its 55% stake in Sakhalin II with state-owned gas monopoly Gazprom for half of a giant natural gas field called Zapolyarnoye.

    FORBES: Shell Shocked

  • The railway involves a natural monopoly: the only other way of getting to the ruins is a four-day hike along the Inca Trail.

    ECONOMIST: The battle to reach Machu Picchu

  • Turkmenistan produces roughly 70 billion cubic metres of natural gas each year and about two-thirds of its exports go to Russia's Gazprom gas monopoly.

    BBC: Turkmenistan profile

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