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// Republics
// Adygea, Republic of >>
// Altai (Gorno-Altai), Republic of >>
// Bashkortostan, Republic of >>
// Buryatia, Republic of >>
// Chechnya, Republic of >>
// Chuvashia, Republic of >>
// Dagestan, Republic of >>
// Ingushetia, Republic of >>
// Kabardino-Balkaria, Republic of >>
// Kalmykia, Republic of >>
// Karachayevo-Cherkessia, Republic of >>
// Karelia, Republic of >>
// Khakassia, Republic of >>
// Komi, Republic of >>
// Mari El, Republic of >>
// Mordovia, Republic of >>
// North Ossetia, Republic of >>
// Sakha (Yakutia), Republic of >>
// Tatarstan, Republic of
// Tuva, Republic of >>
// Udmurtia, Republic of >>
// Territories (Krai)
// Altai Territory >>
// Khabarovsk Territory >>
// Krasnodar Territory >>
// Krasnoyarsk Territory >>
// Primorye (Maritime) Territory >>
// Stavropol Territory >>
// Regions
// Amur Region >>
// Arkhangelsk Region >>
// Astrakhan Region >>
// Belgorod Region >>
// Bryansk Region >>
// Chelyabinsk Region >>
// Chita Region >>
// Irkutsk Region >>
// Ivanovo Region >>
// Kaliningrad Region >>
// Kaluga Region >>
// Kamchatka Region >>
// Kemerovo Region >>
// Kirov Region >>
// Kostroma Region >>
// Kurgan Region >>
// Kursk Region >>
// Leningrad Region >>
// Lipetsk Region >>
// Magadan Region >>
// Moscow Region >>
// Murmansk Region >>
// Nizhny Novgorod Region >>
// Novgorod Region >>
// Novosibirsk Region >>
// Omsk Region >>
// Orel Region >>
// Orenburg Region >>
// Penza Region >>
// Perm Region >>
// Pskov Region >>
// Rostov Region >>
// Ryazan Region >>
// Sakhalin Region >>
// Samara Region >>
// Saratov Region >>
// Smolensk Region >>
// Sverdlovsk Region >>
// Tambov Region >>
// Tomsk Region >>
// Tula Region >>
// Tver Region >>
// Tyumen Region >>
// Ulyanovsk Region >>
// Vladimir Region >>
// Volgograd Region >>
// Vologda Region >>
// Voronezh Region >>
// Yaroslavl Region >>
// Federal Cities
// Moscow >>
// St. Petersburg >>
// Autonomous Areas (Okrugs)
// Agin-Buryatia Autonomous Area >>
// Chukotka Autonomous Area >>
// Evenk Autonomous Area >>
// Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area >>
// Komi-Permyak Autonomous Area >>
// Koryak Autonomous Area >>
// Nenets Autonomous Area >>
// Taimyr (Dolgan-Nenets) Autonomous Area >>
// Ust-Ordynsky Buryat Autonomous Area >>
// Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area >>
// Autonomous Regions
// Jewish Autonomous Region >>
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Tatarstan Secures a Grip on the Mail Service
Tatarstan’s decision to independently privatize its mail service – the state-run Tatarstan Pochtasy – was rebuffed by the federal authorities of Russia. The officials obviously fear that the telecom privatization scenario will play again. In the mid-1990s, lots of telephone offices were made private locally with no way to include them to the state-run Svyazinvest later on.
Tatarstan Pochtasy (Mail of Tatarstan) is the republic operator of mail service that unites around 1,100 branches located in Tatarstan. 2004 revenues reached 290 million rubles.
Tatarstan’s authorities sealed the program for the company’s privatization on June 28, 2005. As decided, the state-run Tatarstan Pochtasy will be reorganized into a joint stock company of similar name with all assets of the state-run predecessor transferred respectively. But under the Federal Mail Service Restructuring Concept passed by the RF Cabinet in 2003, all mail offices of Russia are to become affiliates of the federally-run Mail of Russia.
"Tatarstan Pochtasy’s privatization ruins integrity of the national postal territory. We won’t put up with this situation and intend to go to law to annul the decision,” said Andrey Beskorovainy, head of the Federal Communication Agency of Russia (Rossvyaz).
In Russia’s Communications Ministry, they said Monday that privatization of the mail service of Tatarstan violates a raft of Russian laws. According to Mikhail Yakushev, head of the legal department at Communications Ministry of Russia, Tatarstan Pochtasy has breached the Act on the Mail Service and the Act on Communications.
Tatarstan Pochtasy declined to comment Monday.
The experts say by going to law against Tatarstan, the Russian Mail Service attempts to prevent decentralized privatization of the regional mail service. Similar scenario was applied in the mid.-1990s, in time of telecom privatization carried out in Tatarstan and in some other regions, including Moscow, Bashkortostan, Tyumen Region. At that time, most of the regional telecom operators merged into Svyazinvest holding, where the government of Russia owns 75 percent less a stock. In Tatarstan, all 100 percent of Tattelecom went to stock capital of Svyazinvestneftekhim holding, which is close to the ruling elite of Tatarstan. Though Tattelecom privatization has been never publicly voiced, the announcement could be expected at any time, some market players are sure.
by
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 06, 2005
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