Regional features of ensuring economic security in the context of internal and external threats

In order to carry out successful economic activity, strengthening economic security seems to be one of the urgent problems of the national and regional economy. The author considers the problems of ensuring the economic security of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The review of scientific research by Russian and Kazakh economists studying national and regional economic security from different positions and approaches is presented. The article shows the peculiarities of the macro-regions of Kazakhstan, with their inherent internal threats. Using the example of the Karaganda region, regional peculiarities, factors reflecting the dynamics of development are highlighted, indicators reflecting the state of economic security of the region are given. Based on the above statistics, internal and external threats have been identified that have a negative impact on the level of economic security of the Karaganda region. The result of the study was the development of proposals to minimize the threats in the region, the implementation of which will ultimately contribute to sustainable and progressive national development.