Raid on ToAZ
In the Media
Russia’s Raiders, by Jason Bush, 5 June 2008
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-06-04/russias-raiders
Putin’s ‘Cardinal of the Kremlin’, by Brian Whitmore 1 February 2013
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/02/putins-cardinal-of-the-kremlin/272706/
Europe’s other Russia ‘problem’, by Sir Graham Watson, 5 February 2016,
https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/opinion/europe-s-other-russia-problem/
Corporate Raiding, Russian Style, by Dr. Ariel Cohen, 16 May 2016:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/corporate-raiding-russian_b_9991990
Russian firm seeks $2bn from oligarch linked to Irish company, by Colm Keena, 9 November 2016
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/russian-firm-seeks-2bn-from-oligarch-linked-to-irish-company-1.2860006
Eurotoaz Ltd had losses of $7.6m at the end of 2014, by Colm Keena, 12 November 2016
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/eurotoaz-ltd-had-losses-of-7-6m-at-the-end-of-2014-1.2864430
Russia ‘raider attack’ case makes it to the High Court, by Colm Keena, 12 November 2016,
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/energy-and-resources/russia-raider-attack-case-makes-it-to-the-high-court-1.2864787
Irish firm Eurotoaz alleged to be central to ammonia group fraud case, 5 December 2016,
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/manufacturing/irish-firm-eurotoaz-alleged-to-be-central-to-ammonia-group-fraud-case-1.2894197
Court rejects Russian extradition bid, by Christopher Williams, 2 January 2017,
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/01/02/court-rejects-russian-extradition-bid/
Russia’s economy won’t be fixed by the removal of sanctions, by David Clark, 31 January 2017,
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/01/russias-economy-wont-be-fixed-removal-sanctions
Russiagate and the Magnitsky Affair, linked again, by Matt Taibbi, 14 July 2017,
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/russiagate-and-the-magnitsky-affair-linked-again-253195/
Russia’s corporate raiders add to threat from sanctions, by Sarah Lain, 9 August 2017,
https://www.ft.com/content/b2d2d226-791f-11e7-a3e8-60495fe6ca71
High Court rules in case of four Caribbean-registered firms, by Mary Carolan, 18 January 2019,
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/manufacturing/high-court-rules-in-case-of-four-caribbean-registered-firms-1.3763154
Russia is drowning in corruption. Trump should offer to help, by Ariel Cohen, 26 June 2019,
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-corruption-raiders-rule-law-trump-putin-1445535
Academic Studies & Reports
Hostile Takeovers and Defenses Against Them in Russia, by E. Demitrova, 2007,
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5173409_Hostile_Takeovers_and_Defenses_Against_Them_in_Russia
Criminal Corporate Raiding in Russia, by Thomas Firestone, 2008,
https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1222&context=til
Методы защиты от враждебного поглощения (Hostile takeover protection techniques) by Николай Рудык (Nikolay Rudyk), 2008,
https://www.labirint.ru/books/216729/
Рейдерские захваты – узаконенный разбой (Raider Attacks – Legalised Robbery) by Борисов Юрий Дмитриевич (Borisov Yuri Dmitrievich), 2008,
https://market.yandex.ru/product–borisov-iurii-reiderskie-zakhvaty-uzakonennyi-razboi/550419408
Hostile Takeovers: Russian Style, by Brenden Carbonell, Dimitry Foux, Vera Krimnus, Ed Ma, and Lisa Safyan, 20 April 2009,
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/hostile-takeovers-russian-style/
Effective defence methods against hostile takeovers and raiders in Russia, by Kirill Tishchenko, 2009,
https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/262
Corporate Raiding Russian Style: Hostile Takeovers via Corruption and Fraud, by Ararat Osipian, 2011,
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1755223
Telephone Justice In Russia: An Update, by Alena Ledeneva, 2011:
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1346413/
Ways and Methods of Reydering Captures, by Evgeniy Dubrovskikh, 2011,
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1955985
Threats to Property Rights in Russia: From Private Coercion to State Aggression, by Jordan Gans-Morset, 2012,
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261571994_Threats_to_Property_Rights_in_Russia_From_Private_Coercion_to_State_Aggression
Russia: an Oprichnik economy, by Andrei Zaostrovtsev, 2013,
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-oprichnik-economy/
The Political Economy of Russia, by Neil Robinson, 2013, (from page 81):
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oewV_u6iufAC&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=togliattiazot+corporate+raiding&source=bl&ots=ZiK057sg_T&sig=ACfU3U3JK4M5tA23qLi-nPVbI9n5mcvqMw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiU4dTBxODpAhUYSRUIHS3sDEY4ChDoATAIegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=togliattiazot%20corporate%20raiding&f=false
Corporate Raiding and the Role of the State in Russia, by Michael Rochlitz, 2013,
http://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/documents/rochlitz.pdf
Рейдерство как социально-экономический феномен (Reiderstvo as a socio-economic phenomenon), by Анатолий Липов (Anatoly Lipov, PhD. researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences), 2013,
https://iphras.ru/uplfile/aesthet/lipov/43_raider.pdf
Reiderstvo: Asset-Grabbing in Russia, by Philip Hanson, 2014,
https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/home/chatham/public_html/sites/default/files/20140300AssetGrabbingRussiaHanson1.pdf
The rise of reiderstvo: implications for Russia and the west, by Dr. Louise Shelley and Judy Deane, 9 May 2016,
https://traccc.schar.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The_Rise_of_Reiderstvo.pdf
Corporate Raiding in Russia: Tackling the Legal, Semi-Legal and Illegal Practices that Constitute Reiderstvo Tactics, by Sarah Lain, 11 July 2017,
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/occasional-papers/corporate-raiding-russia-tackling-legal-semi-legal-and-illegal-practices-constitute-reiderstvo
Russia’s Economic Prospects – Modernisation or Stagnation? By David Clark, February 2018,
http://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Russias-Economic-Prospects-February-2018.pdf
The Political Economy of Corporate Raiding in Russia, by Ararat Osipian, 2018,
https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Economy-of-Corporate-Raiding-in-Russia-1st-Edition/Osipian/p/book/9781138477933
Russia’s Network State and Reiderstvo Practices: The Roots to Weak Property Rights Protection after the post-Communist Transition, by Ilja Viktorov, 2019,
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333648677_Ilja_Viktorov_Russia’s_Network_State_and_Reiderstvo_Practices_The_Roots_to_Weak_Property_Rights_Protection_after_the_post-Communist_Transition
Post-communist predation, modelling reiderstvo practices in contemporary predatory states, by Bálint Madlovics & Bálint Magyar, 2020, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-019-00772-7
Court Rulings
Russian Federation v Makarov and Vladimir Makhlai, Westminster Magistrates’ Court, 8 May 2009)
Russian Federation v Evgeniy Korolev, Westminster Magistrates’ Court, 8 December 2016
Order of Barniville J dated 25 March 2022 (Trafalgar Developments LTD & Ors -v- Mazepin & Ors)
List of Trafalgar Developments Limited vs Mazepin & Ors cases
In the Media
Russia: Bribery on the beat, by Charles Clover, 3 November 2010,
https://www.ft.com/content/bdae02a8-e784-11df-b5b4-00144feab49a
When in Moscow: how to do business in Putin’s Russia, by Peter Rogers, 7 April 2015,
https://theconversation.com/when-in-moscow-how-to-do-business-in-putins-russia-38261
The hard truth of doing business in Russia: it isn’t all about sanctions, by Stuart Eizenstat, 26 August 2016,
https://www.ft.com/content/04685ab9-f2a0-31ef-a594-85410083ff4d
The dangers of doing business abroad, by Ken Stier, 13 September 2017:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/biz-monday/article172421852.html
How Russia Persecutes Its Dissidents Using U.S. Courts, by Natasha Bertrand, 30 July 2018,
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/how-russia-persecutes-its-dissidents-using-us-courts/566309/
He played by the rules of Putin’s Russia, until he didn’t: The Story of a Murder, by Sarah A. Topol, 5 February 2019,
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/magazine/denis-voronenkov-assassination-russia-ukraine.html
Arrest of American Investor Is an ‘Emergency’ for Russia’s Economy, Putin Ally Claims, by Cristina Maza, 19 February 2019,
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-arrest-american-investor-emergency-economy-putin-ally-1336410
Committed Russia investor Michael Calvey tripped up by politics, by Max Seddon, 22 February 2019,
https://www.ft.com/content/aabd47a2-369b-11e9-bd3a-8b2a211d90d5
The arrest of Michael Calvey in Russia rattles foreign businesses, 23 February 2019,
https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/02/23/the-arrest-of-michael-calvey-in-russia-rattles-foreign-businesses
Information warfare threatens Western corporations, by Stephen Blank, 2 June 2019,
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/428813-information-warfare-threatens-western-corporations
The Murky History of Russia’s Largest Sports Betting Company, by Roman Shleynov, 16 June 2020,
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/the-murky-history-of-russias-largest-sports-betting-company
In the ToAZ Raid
A Guide to Doing Dark PR in Russia, by Russia! Magazine, Fall 2013,
https://issuu.com/russiamagazine/docs/guide_dark_pr3
Application in Reiderstvo
On Telegram, Negative Memes Can Mean Big Rubles, by Fabrice Deprez, 10 April 2017,
https://www.fastcompany.com/40476243/on-russian-telegram-negative-memes-can-mean-big-rubles
Spies, Lies and the oligarch: inside London’s booming secrets industry, by Tom Burgis, 28 September 2017,
https://www.ft.com/content/1411b1a0-a310-11e7-9e4f-7f5e6a7c98a2
Inside The Fake News Campaign To Smear Russia’s Biggest Fashion Influencers, by Connie Wang, Valerie Stivers, 6 May 2018,
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/05/198267/fake-news-russian-it-girls-miroslava-duma
Boris Nemtsov: Russian Dissident, Rebel for Peace, and Enemy of Tyrants, by Paweł Piwowar, 12 May 2019,
https://fee.org/articles/boris-nemtsov-russian-dissident-rebel-for-peace-and-enemy-of-tyrants/
Information warfare threatens Western corporations, by Stephen Blank, 2 June 2019,
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/428813-information-warfare-threatens-western-corporations
Inside a Ukrainian Troll Farm, by Yevheniia Motorevska, Dmytro Replianchuk, Vasyl Bidun, 20 September 2019,
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/inside-a-ukrainian-troll-farm
Disinformation for Hire: How Russian PR Firms Plant Stories for Companies in U.K. News Outlets, Social Media, by Jeff John Roberts, 30 September 2019,
https://fortune.com/2019/09/30/russian-disinformation-for-hire/
Why Disinformation Will Redefine Issues Management, by Bob Pearson, 15 October 2019,
https://page.org/blog/why-disinformation-will-redefine-issues-management
Undercover at a troll farm, 1 November 2019,
https://www.investigate-europe.eu/en/2019/undercover-at-a-troll-farm/
“Black PR” Firms Line Their Pockets by Spreading Misinformation, by Richard Adhikari, 9 January 2020,
https://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/86444.html
We are all accessories in the spread of fake news, by Hafed Al-Ghwell, 18 January 2020,
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1614966
Cyber Attacks On Business, Personal Reputations A Growing Threat, by Chet Wade, 31 Jan 2020,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chetwade/2020/01/31/cyber-attacks-on-business-personal-reputations-a-growing-threat/#74fa706c319c
Smear Campaign Starts Against Business Owner Fighting Russian Corporate Raiding, Op-ed by Regina Ishmakova (representative of the Center for Business Transparency and Countering Raids in Russia), 23 March 2020, https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/512741531/smear-campaign-starts-against-business-owner-fighting-russian-corporate-raiding