I think the natural tendency would be for the system to move toward a monopoly control, but everything that's natural isn't necessarily inevitable.

我认为一个系统走向一个垄断控制的状态是自然趋势，但是每件自然规律的事情不是绝对不可避免的。

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Yesterday the state natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, signed a deal to take control over the country's largest foreign investment, the massive Sakhalin II Gas Complex in the Russian Far East.

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