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.