ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of raiding is normally considered as a direct and explicit manifestation of the ongoing struggle for economically productive or valuable assets. Raiding anticipates an economic damage that may exist in the form of a loss of economic asset, or in the form of interruption of a production process, or as damage to business reputation. Raiding in the post-Soviet Russia is regarded as nothing less than the ongoing war for property. Corporate and property raiding in Russia is distinct from corporate raiding in the West not only with its frequently exposed violent character and latent corruption. The prospects of Russia overcoming corruption-based corporate and property raiding are rather bleak. The state in Russia is distinct with its duality, and this duality has a direct impact on the character of raiding. Families or clans that constitute the core of the ruling political regime personify the state and express their interests through the state.
