Monday, March 13 2023 19:06
Alina Hovhannisyan

Vahan Kerobyan: During the year, 7,328 companies and individual  entrepreneurs were registered in Armenia by Russian citizens

Vahan Kerobyan: During the year, 7,328 companies and individual  entrepreneurs were registered in Armenia by Russian citizens

ArmInfo.From February last year to March this year, 113,753 citizens moved to Armenia from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, of which 64,862 are of Armenian origin.  Armenian Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan stated this during the March 13 meeting of the RA NA Standing Committee on Economic Affairs.

At the same time, he drew attention to the fact that a large number  of Russian citizens partially transferred their work to Armenia.  Referring to the data of the State Register of Legal Entities, the  minister said that during the reporting period, citizens of the  Russian Federation registered 7,328 companies and individual  entrepreneurs in Armenia, of which 2,345 are companies and about  5,000 are individual entrepreneurs.

Kerobyan said that the main areas of activity of the immigrants are  software development (3,900 companies and individual entrepreneurs),  wholesale and retail trade (679) and IT and other activities related  to computer equipment (339).

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