This section deals with a brief evaluation of developments in the regions of North Caucasus in 2018 as they can be regarded as indicators of significant changes in that part of the country. Such developments include personnel changes in the government of Dagestan where for the first time in the...

In 2017, the social and economic development of the North Caucasian regions was proceeding amid introduction by the federal center of some new forms of regional economic support. A change in economic policy priorities in the North Caucasus was taking place amid sluggishness of the health resort...

Last year (2019) was the tenth year of the implementation of the Strategy of Socioeconomic Development of the North Caucasus Federal Okrug until 2025, adopted in 2010. The Strategy aims at achieving significant economic growth across the North Caucasus regions, as well as modernizing their...

The second half year of 2015 saw an exacerbation of urban land conflicts in the republics of the North Caucasus. These conflicts share a number of common features that must be taken into consideration by state authority in the course of planning their policies aimed at resolving the conflicts

The necessity to optimize the federal budget expenditure targets for 2015, as declared by Russia's authorities, has put to the fore, among other things, also the issue of government target programs for the development of Russian regions, including the regions of the North Caucasus, and the...

The paper deals with a problem regularly faced by survey studies of patriarchal communities, i.e. communities with a high authority of senior generations and a low level of women's autonomy. In such communities, female respondents might give untruthful answers to survey questions in order to fit...

This section analyzes the main new trends that became visible in the North Caucasus during the past year. Bearing in mind the specific features of this region of the Russian Federation, it is important that our analyst should not be confined to examining only the changes that occurred in the...

In 2020, economic crisis and COVID-19 pandemic have been a trial for small business in all Russian regions. In the North Caucasus some types of entrepreneurship provide mass employment and recession in that sector threatens with serious social issues and emergence of new depressed territories (a...