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The article deals with issues related to ensuring and protecting free competition in areas most vulnerable to encroachments on it, such as procurement for state or municipal needs and preventing the conclusion of anti-competitive agreements (cartel agreements). The author gives a general picture of the state of protection and ensuring free competition, defines the areas of activity in this area and describes the structure of encroachments on competition. The article makes extensive use of official statistics and the practice of the Federal Antimonopoly Service on complaints and inspections, provides examples from judicial practice.
Artem V. Ovcharov (2024) studied this question.