Assessment of the level of possible investment risks

Investments are one of the determining factors for the development of the national economy, which is able to create favorable conditions for the production of competitive products and the quality of economic growth, increasing production efficiency, reducing environmental hazards, establishing and maintaining social stability. The article presents an assessment of the level of possible investment risks (political, economic and social, criminal, environmental, financial and legislative), suggests ways to reduce them, developed a risk management system in the region, and gives recommendations on how to reduce investment risks. As a result of the diagnostics of the investment attractiveness of the regional socio-economic systems of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the main factors that form the investment climate and affect the investment risks were identified, i.e. a set of established financial, economic, social, political, legal and cultural conditions that reflect the degree of possible risks of capital investment, the quality of infrastructure and the efficiency of capital investment.