Alina Urazbaeva Participates in the Conference "Statistical Methods Application for Analysis of Economics and Society"

On May 14, 2026, Alina Urazbaeva, Research Assistant at the Laboratory for Spatial Econometric Modeling of Socio-Economic Processes in Russia, presented at the 17th International Academic Conference for undergraduate, graduate and PhD students "Statistical Methods Application for Analysis of Economics and Society".

At the Plenary Session, Alina delivered a report entitled "Sanction Risk Exposure: Cluster Analysis of Russian Regions."
The study performed clustering of Russian regions by potential sanction pressure using 2021 data. The k-means method identified three groups of regions (high, medium, and low risk levels) based on three key variables: the share of manufacturing in GRP, the trade openness index, and the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI).
The findings indicate that a region's integration into international trade and the share of manufacturing in its GRP are reliable predictors of high sanction pressure. The results enable regional authorities to assess potential vulnerability to sanction pressure at the stage of proactive planning.