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The article analyzes and summarizes the practical experience of assessing the risks of companies in the real sector of the Russian economy by rating agencies, identifies the main shortcomings and problems of such an assessment in the context of activities and risk factors. To analyze the risks of the chemical industry, based on the materials of rating agencies, a 5% typological sample of companies belonging to the type of activity «Production of chemicals and chemical products» in each of the federal districts of the Russian Federation was carried out. These include companies that form the main financial result of the industry in the region and rank first in the ranking in terms of revenue in their district. The number of selected companies was 277 units.

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.