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The horrors of legal PR
Say, exaggeration? And here is nothing like that. Let's do a simple exercise with you with some unpretentious example. Well, here, say, last week the whole “great and small” Runet circled the news that the Stockholm arbitration recovered a significant amount from Russia for the “expropriation of Yukos”. Based on the cost of the company of 60 billion dollars (!). Immediately, the Internet settlement arose a question when they come to arrest Russian property, including the embassies and the Sochi-14 tent in the London Hyde Park. However, if you look closely ...
The case examined last week, bearing the proud name Renta 4 SVSA, et al v. The Russian Federal, and which the Russian Federation has the opportunity to appeal for three months, was preceded by another matter, which everyone also constantly refers to when they say that "everything, the Russian Federation is the cover." Namely, the case of the British minority shareholders of the Yukos called Rosinvestco UK Ltd v. Russian Federal, according to which, from the "long -suffering" Russian Federation, they recovered about three and a half million dollars. And everything was just wonderful if, when this case, some omelless circumstances did not become clear.
Firstly, the British sought to recover at first 75 million, and then more than 200 million due to the loss of investment after the "HAPP" Yukos. Stockholm arbitration decided to recover 3.5 million from Russia. Well, so, 60 (!) Times less than the requested. PR was-wow, the result is not very good. I understand that you want to say: "This is only the beginning of the struggle for justice. Hundreds! Thousands!" Wait a minute, move on.
Secondly, the arbitration collected 3 million 500 thousand US dollars from Russia, and the recovery expenses amounted to 14 (!) Millions of dollars. Entertaining arithmetic, isn't it? "Yes, this cannot be!" - The reader will say inexperienced in international legal tricks. “So that someone pays so much money to lawyers only for a potential opportunity to recover four times less!“ Everything can be, ”the sophisticated will grin.“ They simply create prejudice for others, more important matters! ”Since the prejudice in similar processes, where four are paid for one dollar, no one except the main victim from the seizure of the yukos - the menatep group - it could only be needed, it remains only to assume that it was possible to assume that it was only necessary All this Stockholm cheese brow was organized for the process expected this fall in the Hague, where it will already be about the recovery of billions.
Thirdly, everything would go, as expected: quietly and calmly. And they would have waited all years and waited for the angry former Yukosovic minoritytarians armed with Stockholm decision will go to arrest and sell foreign assets of the Russian Federation. And the story of the entry company "The leg" will seem to be a pleasant children's fairy tale. But it wasn’t there. PR, as is usually the case, suddenly dried up in the most interesting place. So what happened further with the very wide -advertised Stockholm decision, which was supposed to deprive Russia of its best foreign assets? And this happened in strict legal reality this is what: the Russian Federation hidden by the Yukosovsky minority in the land appealed the arbitration decision to the corresponding Swedish court, which canceled it due to the lack of jurisdiction from the arbitration ( who wants and reads in English may be convinced ). What the minoritytarians, I must say, were not particularly resisted, having already paid for the decision four times.
But this is not enough. The Vile Swedish court, following the Putin regime, brazenly recovered from minority shareholders about $ 500,000 of various costs. Well, how can one not recall another bearded joke. "Not Academician Aganbegyan, but a locksmith Sahakyan, and not in preference, but in dominoes, and did not win, but lost."
"How do you laugh?" - asks the ordinary reader. “To advance with your hard-widened dirty bast shirt on the holy and say that Yukos’s minority has not won anything? Maybe you are generally for Putin and secret member of United Russia. Yes, I’m just for creative PR does not replace real court decisions. And then the Yukos minority shareholders have been waiting for something from them. Elderly success and frequency is recovered.
PS , when writing this text, the interests of not a single minority shareholder of the Yukos were injured. Unlike the processes themselves.