{"id":155,"date":"2013-02-14T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/luka\/?p=155"},"modified":"2013-02-28T15:36:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T20:36:19","slug":"russian-railways-privatization-gone-off-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/2013\/02\/14\/russian-railways-privatization-gone-off-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Railways&#8217; Privatization Gone Off Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new piece for the Moscow Times:<\/p>\n<p>Russian Railways, the\u00a0state-owned colossus that employs over 1.2 million workers on\u00a085,200 kilometers of\u00a0track and\u00a0generates annual revenues of\u00a01195 billion rubles, is the\u00a0fourth-largest company in\u00a0terms of\u00a0revenues in\u00a0Russia. In\u00a0the privatization drive of\u00a02012, President\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/mt_profile\/vladimir_putin\/432538.html\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0announced the\u00a0government&#8217;s intention to\u00a0sell 25 minus one percent of\u00a0the company, but plans have since gone somewhat off track.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/\/article\/russian-railways-privatization-gone-off-track\/474015.html#ixzz2MECYVXJK\">http:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/\/article\/russian-railways-privatization-gone-off-track\/474015.html#ixzz2MECYVXJK<\/a><br \/>\nThe Moscow Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new piece for the Moscow Times: Russian Railways, the\u00a0state-owned colossus that employs over 1.2 million workers on\u00a085,200 kilometers of\u00a0track and\u00a0generates annual revenues of\u00a01195 billion rubles, is the\u00a0fourth-largest company in\u00a0terms of\u00a0revenues in\u00a0Russia. In\u00a0the privatization drive of\u00a02012, President\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0announced the\u00a0government&#8217;s intention to\u00a0sell 25 minus one percent of\u00a0the company, but plans have since gone somewhat off track. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81744,2579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privatization","category-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}