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What majority shareholder in the mine owns: new questions in the Inskoy mine case
A court process over extortion of 51% of shares in the Inskoy coal mine has brought to light a range of pressing legal issues demanding a serious consideration in the present context. Among these issues is a comparison of an alleged extortion of shares with a similar action with respect to the “title of property,” and, on the whole, if there is a possibility to extort the “title of property” of an enterprise.
Inskoy mine case: what danger command economy presents for the region
The Inskoy mine case in the Kemerovo Region has amply demonstrated the risk regional authorities are exposed to when managing in hands-on mode resources of private enterprises by means of their administrative resources. New case materials made public in the course of the litigation raise questions of efficiency (and permissibility) of the settlement of regional economic problems at the expense of funds of private enterprises.
To save or to ignore: Governors’ role in wage arrears settlement
A decade-long conflict around wage arrears at Inskoy coal mine raises a question of what prospects employees of enterprises have to cause their earned money to be paid without participation of a head of a region. RAPSI has analyzed the details of similar conflicts, in which Governors directly intervened seeking to achieve settlement. The results allow for the conclusion that participation of a region’s head was as a rule of key importance for the settlement of a crisis, whereas mechanisms used varied across regions.
Inskoy 2.0 is looming: Kuzbass authorities set legal precedent
While the Kemerovo Central Court is hearing a criminal case over extortion of the controlling interest in Inskoy mine, Kemerovo mines have already accumulated new large wage arrears; this development has already resulted in strikes and there is a risk of a massive social crisis. RAPSI analyzes potential prospects of the precedent of the high-profile case and effects it will have on the mutual relations between the authorities and the industry.
Inskoy mine precedent: can state help business in order to prevent social unrest?
This year, Miner's Day was marked by Russian president who said that the Federal Security Service (FSB) would join the efforts aimed at overcoming barriers on the way of increasing coal exports. However, usually law enforcement agencies get interested in coal business for completely different reasons. The situation with the Inskoy mine in the Kuzbass region is a vivid example of this practice. The mine was on its way to bankruptcy when its employees went on a strike. Regional authorities did their best to prevent a social unrest but were later accused of an attempted raid attack on the mine. RAPSI has studied all the details of this story, the chronology of which was published on Tayga.info website that is closely watching after it.