Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name:Kazenin Konstantin Author-Name-First: Konstantin Author-Name-Last:Kazenin Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: The North Caucasus: the main trends of 2016 Abstract: 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 economic realm, but also pay attention to those that took place in the sphere of regional politics and regional security. Classification-JEL: H11, H70, H77 Keywords: Russian economy, North Caucasus Creation-Date: 2017 Revision-Date:2017 Length: 6 pages File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/ppaper-2017-291.pdf File-Format: application/pdf File-Function: Revised version, 2017 Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2017-291