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).
