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.

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There is a rumor that Russia would plan to attack to Ukraine

The Moscow Kremlin
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Some cyber companies have claimed, that maybe Russia is going to attack to Ukraine, and this is the very alarming situation. Not only for Europe because that can make the world very unstable place. The problem for Russian military is that it has a very low number of men because it must same time defend rest of its borders if that State would begin the war in Europe.


There is a chance that somebody would attack to the back of Russians, and that might cause the very difficult situation for those troops, and if the situation turns to full-scale warfare, would it cause that Russians or some other nation would attack with nuclear weapons in the opponent's area. That is very problematic in the relationship with Russians, who are wanted to see themselves as the beneficiaries of the Soviet Union, and this is the reason, why that nation attracts some left-wing political activists, who see Putin as the representer of the "old school socialism".


This makes Russia so strong in information warfare. They would always claim, that in that land things are better than anywhere else. And of course, Russian gas company Gazprom has always something to give, if other states want to be friends with Russians. The solution to every problem is the strong and masculine army, what is the great tool in the hands of Kremlin, and of course, the power of the nuclear weapons is very confessing, and it guarantees that Kremlin's way to see things is in the prime role in media. And then there would be news, where the Russian military would win NATO in 15 seconds, what purpose is to support nationalists around Europe.


The main purpose of that kind of news and information is to scatter European Union, and at the same time would there be given many advise, how to handle foreign and refugees. That would be a good reason to hire more police and military men, and of course, at the same time would be delivering the information, that EU would cause next conflict between Russia and NATO. And the best opportunity to avoid conflict with that nuclear-armed superpower would be separating from EU. This would guarantee, that Russia would not start aggression against those states, what is heard the wise men of Kremlin.


Of course, the situation, where some state would left alone, would make opportunity for Kremlin start the aggression. The policy, what Russia uses in EU is scratch and rule those states. And at the same time, skinheads and Neo-nazis would play the role that they are taken support from Kremlin, and if those persons would start violent actions against Russian citizen, would it cause the reason, that Russian military would come to protect its citizens, and then the Russian military would start the occupation  in that area. This would be a good reason, be reasonable, but as we know that reasonable men would not go to war, and they would not become legends, and that's why we might not be reasonable.  Or would Finland be an even independent state, if this country were led by reasonable men in 1939, when the Soviet Union started the conflict, what is known as the "Winter War"?


The wall of Europe would seem very good in the eyes of nationalists, but there is only one problem. Behind that wall would the enemy start to grow, and that would cause the similar situation, what the Wall of Hardianus caused to the Roman empire. That thing caused the situation, where legions couldn't destroy the enemies of the Rome, and they were grown bigger and stronger than that empire. This is the reason, why European wall would not be the suitable solution for the long period use.


For the stable solution must those nations, where refugees are coming make restless. And the democracy is one road for stable peace, but of course, there always be some persons, who want to make terror attacks and other violent actions. That kind of persons are known as terrorists, and they would not want to go to jail. Or sometimes their actions have caused very much pain for local people, and that makes them very hated. That means they have no other change than fight or die because they would not have future in anywhere. And those persons are the most dangerous enemies.

Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-routers-ukraine/cyber-firms-warn-on-suspected-russian-plan-to-attack-ukraine-idUSKCN1IO1U9

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