{"product_id":"suing-the-kremlin-the-battle-for-putins-billions-9781800755062","title":"Suing the Kremlin: The Battle for Putin's Billions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVladimir Putin came to power by destroying the Russian oligarchs, the entrepreneurs who grew rich during Russia's chaotic transition from communism and exercised unseemly influence over the government of Boris Yeltsin. Putin confiscated their companies and used the profits to build the Kremlin's war chest for the invasion of Ukraine. He and his cronies siphoned off billions for themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on exclusive interviews and explosive new material, in Suing the Kremlin Martin Sixsmith tells the astonishing story of what happened to the men Putin dispossessed. Some were sent to labour camps, forced into exile or murdered. Some attempted to fight back, but with no success.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet for the past twenty years, a small, determined team of legal experts based in London has been pursuing Putin and his rogue state through courts across the globe. Acting on behalf of Group Menatep - the holding company founded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's wealthiest oligarch - they have set out to reclaim this vast stolen fortune and to prove that even the most powerful men in the world are not beyond the reach of international law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781800755062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 01 Sep 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Swift Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 23.4(H)x15.3(L)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eMartin Sixsmith was for many years BBC correspondent in Moscow. He wrote the book relating to the film Philomena. He has written a number of books on Russia and also broadcast his own 12 part series on the History of Russia for BBC Radio 4.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In his \u003cstrong\u003etightly focused\u003c\/strong\u003e new book, \u003cem\u003eSuing the Kremlin\u003c\/em\u003e, Martin Sixsmith shows how a determined effort by lawyers has, astonishingly, opened the possibility of redress for those who have been expropriated by Russia’s leader'\u003cem\u003e Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The sometimes nerdy but \u003cstrong\u003ealways fascinating\u003c\/strong\u003e core of “Suing the Kremlin” is the two-decade-long legal saga that the expropriation spawned, which Martin Sixsmith rightly says will be studied by generations of lawyers ... Mr Sixsmith’s\u003cstrong\u003e well-paced \u003c\/strong\u003ebook, \u003cstrong\u003ereadable in a single sitting\u003c\/strong\u003e, shows that Mr Putin’s vindictive, capricious Russia was no place to invest in long before his bloodthirsty adventurism in Ukraine' \u003cem\u003eEconomist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Martin Sixsmith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48880262086873,"sku":"9781800755062","price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781800755062.jpg?v=1783000241","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/suing-the-kremlin-the-battle-for-putins-billions-9781800755062","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}