Why don't Russian oligarchs resist Putin?

The Kremlin in Moscow. (SciTech Daily/Meet Russia’s Oligarchs – A Group of Men Who Won’t Be Toppling Putin Anytime Soon)

Sometimes Russian oligarchs mean Soviet-born Russian entrepreneurs who made their property during the strong privatization era of Russia in the early 90s. Oligarch or Russian business elite are the people who are the most powerful private status in Russia. They are powerful actors in business life, but they have no official status in government. "Putin has kept most oligarchs at a distance – literally and figuratively". (SciTech Daily/Meet Russia’s Oligarchs – A Group of Men Who Won’t Be Toppling Putin Anytime Soon)

The mission of those people is to make money and pay taxes for Putin's government. Sometimes oligarchs are buying the property or shares of the high-tech companies for the FSB (Federal Security Service). The thing is that oligarch is a half-governmental actor. The person who is acting as a prime mover can look like some kind of entrepreneur. 

But the company and investments of that person are controlled by the FSB. And if that person would not cooperate the security service will confiscate that property without excuses. All oligarchs in Russia must thank Putin or somebody in his court for their position. The debt can be straight. Or it can be chained. And that guarantees the power of Putin and the FSB  to each of them. 

We always think that all oligarchs hate Putin. The fact is that oligarchs that are operating with things like Wagner Group are benefiting Putin's government. And those people are getting financial benefits and gifts for their loyalty to Putin. Oligarchs that have straight contact with Putin are under heavy guard of FSB. 

The mission of those agents that are playing their security officers is to report all possible actions against Putin to the chief of FSB or Putin himself. The thing that denies any plan is that the oligarchs are sometimes ordered to make some offers. And if those offers are not in reports the oligarch will get punishment. Another thing is that when an oligarch is outside Russia. The family of that person is in Russia as hostages. The SciTech Daily tells that There are three types of oligarchs. 

The thing is that even if the oligarch doesn't have a personal connection with Putin or FSB the security service is controlling everything and everybody in Russia. So if the FSB recommends some "services" like buying property for the Russian government for a safehouse or opening a bank account for security service the only accepted answer is "yes". 

The thing is that every oligarch is connected to the system. Their mission is to earn money for Putin and his government. The FSB asks their services for hiding that it is participating in the business. The Federal Protective Service or FSO is one of the organizations that are handling the "security" of those people. The official mission of that organization is the VIP-protection, but it also guards its "customers". So those people who are under the guard of FSO are in a golden jail. 

But also half-private contractors like Wagner Group are protecting oligarchs. Those mercenaries are working with the FSB. Without FSB there are no guns in the hands of those people. And also they are making reports for the FSB. The thing is that security personnel are also making sure that no oligarch will ever rebel or act against Putin. 

https://scitechdaily.com/meet-russias-oligarchs-a-group-of-men-who-wont-be-toppling-putin-anytime-soon/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Protective_Service_(Russia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarchs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_oligarch

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Text is taken from SciTech Daily (ScitechDaily/Meet Russia’s Oligarchs – A Group of Men Who Won’t Be Toppling Putin Anytime Soon)

Today, three types of oligarchs stand out in terms of their proximity to power.

First come Putin’s friends, who are personally connected to the president. Many of Putin’s close friends – particularly those from his St. Petersburg and KGB days – have experienced a meteoric rise to extreme wealth. A few of Putin’s closest oligarch friends from St. Petersburg are Yuri Kovalchuk, often referred to as Putin’s “personal banker”; Gennady Timchenko, whose key asset is the energy trading firm Gunvor; and the brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, who own assets in construction, electricity, and pipelines. All of these individuals have been sanctioned.

The second group includes leaders of Russia’s security services, the police, and the military – known as “siloviki” – who have also leveraged their networks to amass extreme personal wealth. Some of these so-called “silovarchs”, are former KGB, and now FSB, intelligence officers who had eyed the Yeltsin-era oligarchs’ power and wealth jealously and obtained both under Putin. The man reputed to be the informal leader of the siloviki is Igor Sechin, chairman of oil giant Rosneft, widely seen as the second-most powerful person in Russia.

Finally, the largest number of Russian oligarchs are outsiders without personal connections to Putin, the military, or the FSB. Indeed, some current outsiders are the 1990s-era oligarchs. While Putin selectively crushed politically inconvenient or obstreperous oligarchs after coming to power, he did not seek to systematically “eliminate oligarchs as a class,” as he had promised during his initial election campaign. For example, oligarchs such as Vladimir Potanin and Oleg Deripaska, who accumulated their wealth in the 1990s, regularly feature in the lists of richest Russians today.

https://scitechdaily.com/meet-russias-oligarchs-a-group-of-men-who-wont-be-toppling-putin-anytime-soon/

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The relationship between diversity and leadership

The relationship between diversity and leadership

A new person in a team is always different. That individual hasn't yet learned the written and non-written rules in the team. The things like who cooks coffee might mean small, but they are in a very big role in the society and social hierarchy in working place, and here we must say, that before we realize that we are racists, we cannot face the problems.

When a new member comes in the team, that person must dare to tell own ideas in the meetings, because there is some reason to hire that person. If that person would not understand that there is a role for every person in the team, that means that some person might not tell something important in the meetings. When a person is hired, the boss mission is to tell the reason for hiring, and the employee must realize, why some things are done. And if there is a disappointment, that employee must be separated.

The thing is that there are many other minorities than some ethnical groups, and for those invisible minorities we might be more racist than the being member of some visible group of minorities. Things like psychic symptoms are still things, what are allowed to use in humor, and when Donald Trump compared psychic patients as animals might look funny, and that thing might seem acceptable. Here I'm wondering, why we are always celebrating the wrist cancer week, but we ever celebrating the Tourette week?

But that thing is the attitude of the psychic patients is always negative. Also, sexual minorities are facing similar racism as members of some ethnic group. Those persons would meet very bad racist humor, and that thing might cause very bad situations. The problem of those people is that nobody sees those things by first sight. The thing about minorities is that they are groups of individuals, and when we are thinking about hierarchy, there might be some people of those groups, who have very much benefits, but those people are always crushing rights of their own.

And if we are thinking about the possibility to be only with people, who have the same ethnic background we might think that thing as isolation. The thing is that nobody must even talk about members of the minority groups, and there is a possibility that their internal hierarchy is also very pressing. Before the civil war ín the Southern cotton fields in the USA, the position of the leader of the slaves gave those leaders position as slave whippers, who raised above others in the hierarchy.

Those leading slaves were not made things what were ordered themselves. They just ordered other prisoners to make them work, and they were just whipping the others. Also, the Nazis used the same method in their concentration camps. They selected leading prisoners from the line, and then those persons just motivated other prisoners by using whips and batons.

Diversity brings challenges to working life. The thing is that there are many people, who have different backgrounds. And different backgrounds are sometimes causing that people are closing some person outside the team. This kind of thing would be a very big waste of potentials if somebody knows about things or has some new ideas, but that person would not bring those things in meetings.

If somebody would keep mouth shut, even if that person has ideas or some special skills and knowledge would feel that nobody listen. When we are thinking about people, who are working as temporary, we must ask, why that person wants to give skills and knowledge for the company, what would not hire that person, regardless how good that person is? When we are talking about diversity, that is more than education, linguistic, cultural or national diversity. 

That thing might be the also psychological or social diversity and differences between people. One bad experience in the personal history of a person might cause that some individual has a problem with social situations and attitudes for some things, what would look like natural for others, who are in that team. Here we must remember one thing, what is that those experiences are not visible while we are looking at those people, and the thing is that also positive experiences can turn against the working community.

If some people have learned blind trust to other people, that individual could tell things, that should not be told when that person answers to telephones, and a call comes from unknown telephone numbers. Those things can have destructive results for the company, and it's information security if somebody tells things like email addresses,  passwords, and usernames to telephone

Diversity is not a threat in working life. Many individuals believe that it is uncomfortable to work in the working environment, where is working a different kind of people. When we are thinking about the homogenous working community, that thing has one very bad weakness, and that is the one-sided point of view to things, what the company or its workers do.

The thing is that diversity gives one big benefit for the company, and that is that there are multiple points of view things, and that thing guarantees that every side of the things is analyzed. So this is the reason, why we must understand that diversity is an opportunity, not a threat. When we are thinking about the homogeneous working environment, there is one thing, what we are thinking, and that is everybody knows each other and everybody is similar to each other. 

And that thing is not always good when we are thinking about leadership. Leadership is a complicated thing and that means that the leader of the group must have a distance to henchmen. A position as a leader requires, that person must observe the work, what other people are doing, and that means that sometimes the leader must make decisions, what is not feeling right. But what is necessary for the company, and ib that case is best, that there is little distance between leader and henchman.