Importance Currently, unlawful activities of cartels pose a serious threat to the national economic security and further socio-economic development of the Russian Federation. The existing situation necessitates a comprehensive solution, active and consistent cooperation of governmental authorities and the civic society in order to counter carters. Objectives The research analyzes the current situation in the Russian economy so to identify and assess the cartelizing threat and find key counteraction approaches. Methods The article overviews official statistics on violation of the anti-trust law. I systematize legislative amendments concerning the improvement of measures for countering cartels and economic monopolization. The article summarizes recommendations ministries, agencies, public associations make to counter cartels. Analyzing court practices, effective laws, current economic situation in Russia, scientific proceedings, I find key approaches and measures to tackle cartelizing processes. Results I demonstrate that Russia's economy is significantly exposed to cartelizing processes. It is important to proceed with raising the competition in Russia and outlining a set of measures against cartels. Conclusions and Relevance The article highlights key directions and measures for developing the healthy competition in Russia and countering the cartelizing process. The findings can prove useful for governmental authorities to outline what should be undertaken to combat unlawful activities of cartels. The materials can be used in researchers.
Keywords: cartel, antitrust law, competition, national economic security, small business
References:
Tenishev A.P., Bandurina N.V. [Cartelization as a factor for reducing the effectiveness of public procurement spending]. Vestnik AKSOR = AKSOR Bulletin, 2016, no. 4, pp. 57–62. (In Russ.)
Kinev A.Yu., Timoshenko A.S. [Analysis of jurisprudence on cartels and other anti-trust agreements]. Zakony Rossii: opyt, analiz, praktika = Laws of Russia: Experience, Analysis, Practice, 2016, no. 3, pp. 10–21. (In Russ.)
Kinev A.Yu. [Criminal liability for cartels: the enforcement practices for Article 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation]. Yuridicheskii mir = Juridical World, 2013, no. 3, pp. 9–18. (In Russ.)
Kinev A.Yu., Egorychev N.N., Samolysov P.V., Tenishev A.P. [Cartels. The system of proof and judicial practice]. Zakon = Law, 2013, no. 4, pp. 131–139. (In Russ.)
Baluev O.E., Samolysov P.V. [Administrative and legal mechanisms for identifying and proving cartels in bidding for State defense orders: Evidence from the BAASZ case)]. Ekonomicheskoe pravosudie v Ural'skom okruge = Economic Justice in Ural District, 2015, no. 4, pp. 60–68. (In Russ.)
Osipov M.Yu. [On some problems of realization of federal law on protection of competition]. Konkurentnoe pravo = Competition Law, 2014, no. 2, pp. 8–11. (In Russ.)
Osipov M.Yu. [Problems of improvement of the legislation on protection of competition]. Konkurentnoe pravo = Competition Law, 2014, no. 4, pp. 8–12. (In Russ.)
Parashchuk S.A. [Concept and types of unfair competition in the draft amendments to the legislation on protection of competition]. Yurist = Jurist, 2015, no. 1, pp. 15–22. (In Russ.)
Avdonin R.V. [Combating abuse of dominant position: finding compromise]. Ekonomika i predprinimatel'stvo = Journal of Economy and Entrepreneurship, 2017, no. 4-2, pp. 576–579. (In Russ.)
Egorova M.A., Kinev A.Yu. [Legal criteria cartel]. Pravo i ekonomika = Law and Economics, 2016, no. 4, pp. 4–11. (In Russ.)
Dozmarov K.V. [Economic methods in the fight against cartels]. Ekonomichesky Zhurnal, 2016, vol. 42, no. 42, pp. 15–31. (In Russ.)
Kinev A.Yu. [The development of administrative-and-legal and criminal legal instruments for combating cartels]. Nauchnyi portal MVD Rossii = Scientific Portal of the Russia MI, 2014, no. 1, pp. 104–107. (In Russ.)
Denisova A.V. [Prospects for changing the criminal policy of the State in relation to cartels]. Ugolovnoe pravo: strategiya razvitiya v XXI veke: materialy XIII mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii [Proc. Int. Sci. Conf. Criminal Law: The Development Strategy in the 21st Century]. Moscow, MSAL Publ., 2016, pp. 77–80.
Denisova A.V. [Publicly dangerous consequences of the crime provided by Article 178 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Limitation of Competition”]. Rossiiskii sledovatel' = Russian Investigator, 2016, no. 13, pp. 26–32. (In Russ.)
Khamukov M.A. [Specifics of cartels in the Russian industrial sector and methods to reveal them]. Vestnik SevKavGTI = Bulletin of North Caucasian State Technological Institute, 2016, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 60–64. (In Russ.)
Kuntsman M.V., Sultygova A.A., Yurina S.I. [Protection of the competition as counteraction to threats of economic security]. Mezhdunarodnoe nauchnoe izdanie Sovremennye fundamental'nye i prikladnye issledovaniya = International Scientific Periodical Modern Fundamental and Applied Researches, 2015, no. 4, pp. 142–144. (In Russ.)
