North Caucasus least dependent on imports of «unfriendly countries» due to lack of industry

Chechnya and Ingushetia are the most independent of the countries that have declared sanctions against Russia. Analysts of the Statistical Research Institute of HSE believe that these subsidized regions are poorly involved in the international division of labour and have practically no developed real sector - mechanical engineering, automotive, pharmaceutical, high-tech production. 
The share of imports in the economy of Chechnya and Ingushetia was 1.6 per cent and 2.2 per cent in 2022. In North Ossetia, the rate is 2.5 per cent, in Dagestan, 2.6 per cent, in Kabardino-Balkaria, 2.7 per cent, in the Stavropol region, 3.2 per cent, in Karachay-Cherkessia, 3.3 per cent.
The largest share of «unfriendly» imports - in Kaluga (5.8%), Ulyanovsk (5.5%) and Samara (5.4%) regions, as well as in Tatarstan (5%) and Vladimir oblast (5%).

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