On the eve of changes. The first steps from Ministry of Railways to Open joint-stock company "Rossiyskiye zheleznyye dorogi": birth of the program of railway reforms

Creation of companies Open joint-stock company "Rossiyskiye zheleznyye dorogi" which 20 anniversary is celebrated in October, 2023, was an element of wider and, generally speaking, much more important process — structural reforms railway transport. Therefore it is useful to remember as well as why reforming which led to transformation of the Soviet ministry (which was begun there was Ministry of Railways) in state corporation. You remember how everything began? Discussions about reforming of Open joint-stock company "Rossiyskiye zheleznyye dorogi" began still in the early nineties. And a variety of the points of view took place. So, in work "It is expensive in the market" (2004) of her authors Anatoly Aleksandrovich Zaytsev (through...