About 7,500 Russian businesses registered in Georgia in 5 months

Some 7,459 Russian businesses were registered in Georgia from March 1 to August 1.

Interpress News reported on August 30, citing the National Statistical Office of Georgia. 

As reported by the Geostat, 544 of the registered Russian businesses are limited liability companies (LLCs), 6,913 are individual entrepreneurs, and 2 are branches of foreign enterprises.

It should be noted that according to the information of the National Statistics Office, the activities of 542 out of 544 Russian LLCs registered in Georgia are unknown, the field of activity of 1 company is coffee processing, and another 1 is hotels without restaurants and similar accommodation facilities.

As for the 6913 Russian individual entrepreneurs registered in Georgia, the activities of only 2 are known, and the field of activity of 6911, according to Geostat, is unknown to them.

In addition, according to the information requested by IPN, the largest number of Russian businesses in Georgia - namely, 2169 - were registered in March. In particular, in March of this year, 147 Russian LLCs, 2021 individual entrepreneurs and one branch of a foreign enterprise were registered in Georgia.

1601 Russian businesses were registered in April, 1370 in May, 1219 in June and 1100 in July.