Abstract
Predatory raiders that take part in violent storming and defense of stormed enterprises are regarded as foot soldiers of the raiding movement. They have their qualitative characteristics, including firepower and prices charged for raiding services. Both law enforcement agencies and private security agencies exercise their right and duty to protect private and state property. The mass privatization of the 1990s brought to life the need to protect private property on a massive scale. At the same time, state law enforcement agencies were no longer capable of or willing to protect private property. The state lost its monopoly on the physical protection of property. Private security firms partially replace the state in its function of protecting private property. Corruption in the law enforcement agencies, judiciary, and other related state bureaucracies helps predatory raiders to target successful and financially sound businesses as well as federal and municipal properties of high market value.
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See the video report about the police storming a ferrous ash disposal area in the city of Zlatoust in Russia on September 26, 2008, as a result of the court dispute. The ferrous disposal area contains colored metals and other useful and expensive materials that are the byproducts of the production of the Zlatoust metallurgic complex. Retrieved from: http://rutube.ru/tracks/1048253.html
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Court. Raiding. 3 Kanal, June 8, 2009. Retrieved July 29, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyvwC5VehQs
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See for instance: Police is storming a private bank in Moscow using axes and sledge hummers. Masked policemen are breaking in through the bulletproof glass and arresting private security. They also attempt to get through armored doors. It is unclear why the police are performing locksmith functions. Date unknown. Retrieved from: http://www.ochevidets.ru/rolik/7551/
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Dmitry Medvedev poobeshchal, chto biznesmenov budut sazhat’ znachitel’no rezhe [Dmitry Medvedev promised businessmen a much lower rate of their imprisonment]. Zagolovki, February 27, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2010, from http://www.zagolovki.ru/daytheme/medvedev/27Feb2010
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Medvedev predlagaet smyagchit’ nakazaniya za ekonomicheskie prestupleniya [Medvedev is suggesting to reduce punishment for economic crimes]. Newsru.com , February 26, 2010. Retrieved February 26, 2010, from http://www.newsru.com/arch/finance/26feb2010/medvedev.html
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Dmitry Medvedev poobeshchal, chto biznesmenov budut sazhat’ znachitel’no rezhe [Dmitry Medvedev promised businessmen a much lower rate of their imprisonment]. Zagolovki, February 27, 2010. Retrieved February 27, 2010, from http://www.zagolovki.ru/daytheme/medvedev/27Feb2010
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Putin podpisal zakon, pozvoliayushchij “Transnefti” i “Gazpromu” sozdat’ korporativnye armii [Putin signed the law that allows “Transneft” and “Gazprom” to create corporate armies]. Newsru.com , August 1, 2007. Retrieved May 9, 2009, from http://palm.newsru.com/russia/01aug2007/gazpromarmy.html
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Gazprom i Transneft’ poluchat pravo imet’ sobstvennye vooruzhennye sily [Gazprom i Transneft’ will be granted the right to have their own military forces]. Babr.ru, March 27, 2007. Retrieved June 10, 2009, from http://news.babr.ru/?IDE=36823
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Vpervye v Rossii sozdayutsya korporativnye armii [First time in Russia corporate armies are created]. Evangelie.ru, July 16, 2007. Retrieved June 10, 2009, from http://www.evangelie.ru/forum/t35744.html
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Novgorodskoe ohrannoe agentstvo “FFF” podozrevaetsya v reiderstve [Novgorod private security agency “FFF” is suspected of raiding]. Novgorodinform, October 10, 2008. Retrieved July 22, 2009, from http://www.novgorodinform.ru/crime/16615.html
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Rossijskoe pravitel’stvo ofitsial’no uchrezhdaet Den’ programmista – 256-j den’ v godu [Russian government officially establishes the day of the computer programmer]. Newsru.com , July 24, 2009. Retrieved July 25, 2009, from http://www.newsru.com/russia/24jul2009/256.html
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Reiderstvo i korruptsiya: uslugi i tseny [Raiding and corruption: services and prices]. Notheft.ru, September 5, 2008. Retrieved July 22, 2009, from http://www.notheft.ru/rejderstvo-i-korrupcija-uslugi-i-ceny
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Reiderstvo vstanet v odin ryad s korruptsiej [Raiding will stand in one line with corruption]. Nezavisimaya gazeta, May 23, 2008. Retrieved July 26, 2009, from http://www.notheft.ru/rejderstvo-vstanet-v-odin-rjad-s-korupciej
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Deputaty namerevayutsya uzhestochit’ nakazaniya za “reiderstvo” [MPs want to introduce harsher punishments for “raiding”]. Notheft.ru, March 13, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2009, from http://www.notheft.ru/deputaty-namerevajutsja-uzhestochit-nakazanija-za-%C2%ABrejderstvo%C2%BB
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Bogdanov, V. (2008). Reiderstvo uravnyayut s razboem: deputaty i predprinimateli gotovyat zakonoproekt, po kotoromu zakhvat predpriyatij obojdetsya v 20 let tyur’my [Raiding will be equated to robbery: MPs and entrepreneurs are working on the project of the law, according to which raiding will be punished with up to 20 years in prison]. Rossijskaya gazeta, №4612, March 14, 2008. Retrieved July 26, 2009, from http://www.rg.ru/2008/03/14/reider.html
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Desyat’ let za reshetkoj budet skoro svetit’ sud’e za pomoshch’ reideram [Ten-year sentence will soon become a reality for judges who help raiders]. Simbirskij kur’er, March 19, 2008. Retrieved July 26, 2009, from http://www.notheft.ru/desjat-let-reshetkoj-budet-skoro-svetit-sude-pomoshh-rejderam
V Sankt-Peterburge sobirayutsya likvidirovat’ antireiderskuyu komissiyu [There is an intention to liquidate the anti-raiding commission in Sankt-Petersburg]. Notheft.ru, March 6, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2009, from http://www.notheft.ru/v-sankt-peterburge-sobirajutsja-likvidirovat-antirejderskuju-komissiju
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Uchreditel’nyj dogovor budet isklyuchen iz chisla uchreditel’nykh dokumentov obshchestv s ogranichennoj otvetstvennost’yu letom etogo goda [The founding statute will no longer be on the list of formal documents for LLCs, starting summer of this year]. Notheft.ru, March 30, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2009, from http://www.notheft.ru/uchreditelnyj-dogovor-budet-iskljuchen-iz-chisla-uchreditelnyh-dokumentov-obshhestv-s-ogranichennoj-
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S reiderov vzyshchut ubytki za ataki na chuzhoj biznes [Raiders may well end up paying damages for attacking other businesses]. Newsru.com , September 5, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2011, from http://www.newsru.com/finance/05sep2011/sigma.html
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Osipian, A.L. (2019). Foot Soldiers and Firepower: Prices on Raiding Services. In: Political and Economic Transition in Russia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03831-1_9
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