organizations. At the same time, USA sanctions can
be imposed at any convenient time, despite the fact
that all issues of joint activity can be agreed upon and
agreements concluded between Russian and foreign
organizations. This was the case, for example, when
frightened of American sanctions, the Swiss company
Allseas refused to proceed with the construction of
the gas pipeline “Nord Stream-2” (BFM). And such
unforeseen risks in the activities of Russian
organizations from foreign states and organizations
are becoming more and more, which carries
increasing threats of loss of fair “won” Russian
competitive positions. On April 21, 2021, the
President of the Russian Federation, in a message to
the Federal Assembly, compared Russia’s enemies to
the heroes of Kipling’s story, noting that some are
clinging to the Russian Federation for no reason and,
like Tabaki, howling to appease their sovereign (IZ).
There is no doubt that in such difficult circumstances
Russian organizations must “restructure” their
activities to external conditions and make changes in
their own business and production activities in order
to ensure their competitive sustainability. As a
consequence, Russian organizations are now obliged
to ensure that, in such a difficult environment created
by foreign states and organizations, the necessary
level of competitive sustainability is maintained,
allowing them to successfully overcome the emerging
risks, seeking to find new management approaches
for this. As a consequence, Russian researchers began
to consider the risk management system that exists in
foreign organizations as an increase in the efficiency
of Russian organizations, often calling it the “Russian
way” risk management system.
The risk management system is really actively
applied in the activities of foreign organizations, as in
the world of business it is easy to “go to the bottom”
due to force-majeure, unscrupulous counterparties or
unfavourable market situation etc. As a result, risk
management, which is a regular activity in foreign
organizations, is aimed at monitoring and preventing
dangerous situations of their own development - risks
and ensuring competitive sustainability in the long
term. For example, in analyzing and interpreting the
annual performance of foreign organizations in an
explanatory note to the balance sheet, it seems
necessary to highlight the risks of their future
development. The responsibility for this analysis lies
with the expert observers who assess whether all
officials are fulfilling their tasks of using the
resources at their disposal to achieve the
organization’s competitive advantage and whether
the organization’s monitoring and control system is
functioning effectively. The starting point of the risk-
management process in this case is to define and link
all business objectives and to establish the boundaries
necessary to identify risk in terms of its suitability for
successful business development, and, finally, the
identification and development of measures to avoid
or reduce negative impacts on the work process and
performance of organizations (Kiselev, 2021). As a
consequence, in foreign organizations, risk
management refers to the activities of certain
professionals - risk managers who, as specialists in
certain fields of activity, assess management
decisions from the perspective of certain risks,
calculate the consequences of the risks that the
organization is intentionally taking in order to get the
best result, and prepare proposals to managers to
reduce the negative consequences of possible risks
from competitors and partners. Unfortunately,
Russian organizations often still operate on the
principle: “The main task is to close the year, and
there we will see”. At best, in Russian organizations
we are talking about crisis managers to solve the
problem of getting organizations out of crisis
situations. Therefore, Russian researchers, speaking
about the need for risk management, most often
consider only methods for assessing possible risks
and the need to use a risk-based approach in making
management decisions. For this reason, the
establishment of risk management services in Russian
organizations can be considered as still exotic
(Kiselev, 2021). And it is in this that one can see the
weakness of the activities of many Russian
organizations in relation to foreign organizations,
since what Russian organizations consider
advantageous in cooperation with foreign
organizations today, in the long run, it may be more
difficult to achieve the right level of competitive
sustainability. It’s like in chess. One of the players
can “expose” and give several pieces to the opponent,
which will please the other player as he will consider
it his success. However, this can be done knowingly
by the first player, due to the the chosen strategy he
creates favorable conditions for his losing in the long
run. In such conditions it is important to manage
organizations from a risk based perspective.
But when we say that the competitive
sustainability of an organization should ensure
strategic development, such management in Russian
organizations should be systematic and continuous.
Consequently, in this context, researchers
characterize governance in Russian organizations as
risk-based management, which aims to ensure that
organizations have the right level of competitive
sustainability.