High beer game. Russia’s Baltika is suing Denmark’s Carlsberg for billions in damages

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Carlsberg company began to seek the sale of its Russian Baltika division and announced last July that it had found a buyer. In April, however, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the seizure of Carlsberg in Baltica.

f Carlsberg’s Jacob Aarup-Andersen declared the takeover of the Russian activities of the Danish company as theft in the fall. There is no way around the fact that our activities in Russia were stolen, he declared. We will not help them in trying to make it look legitimate, he added.

the application for annulment was filed at the St. Petersburg court. The court documents do not specify what the claims for weight compensation are, Reuters wrote. She pointed out that the previous trial of women related to Baltika and Carlsberg was held with the exclusion of the public due to the presence of a document containing trade secrets.

We do not comment on specific court cases, said the Carslberg company. As we have informed her, we will take every possible step to protect our employees, property and activities in connection with Baltica, she added. Baltika declined to comment on the allegation, according to Reuters.

Carlsberg is currently the largest beer producer in the world. Psob, for example, in the Czech Republic, where in 2014 he bought a fifty-one percent stake in the Atek brewery.