Over the past weeks, it was reported that the Russian authorities would consider the possibility of allowing other companies than Gazprom to export natural gas. Recently, this information has been taken up: it was accounted that Gazprom would preserve its export monopoly and that Rosneft, the other Tussian state-owned energy giant, suggested the government to break up Gazprom into separate companies for production and transport. Yet, the issue's implications go beyond the break-up of Gazprom's export monopoly and its splitting up, as they encompass the economic competition between Gazprom and other major gas actors, mainly Rosneft and Novatek, and, likely, a gradual transformation of the Russian gas market's model.
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