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THE POLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF RUSSIAN RAILWAY TRANSPORT AS A NATURAL MONOPOLY

Tcheremin G.D. 1
1 Moscow Humanitarian University
The political importance and features of the Russian railway transportation as natural monopoly are shown. The natural monopoly in this sphere developed during the long period. The railway transportation became a tool of modernization of the country on the eras of the XIX-XX centuries. The state monopoly on a railway transportation was established during the Civil war of 1918-1920. The railway transportation became means of maintenance of unity of political, social and economic space of the country. Its network structure to the greatest degree corresponds the performance of tasks of transportation of cargoes and people. The sociopolitical importance of a railway transportation as public blessing is so great, that the stability of position in the country depends on it. She focuses on the interplay of politics and economics in view of interests of the elite are on the level of decision making.