This is a list of individuals and events related to Armenia in

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Incumbents

* President: Armen Sarkissian * Prime Minister: Nikol Pashinyan * Speaker: Ararat Mirzoyan (until 2 August), Alen Simonyan (from 2 August)

Events

Ongoing

COVID-19 pandemic in Armenia The COVID-19 pandemic in Armenia is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to have reached Armenia on 1 March 2020 ...

January

* 18 January – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that Armenia has returned all Azeri

prisoners A prisoner (also known as an inmate or detainee) is a person who is deprived of liberty against their will. This can be by confinement, captivity, or forcible restraint. The term applies particularly to serving a prison sentence in a prison. ...

who were captured during the

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War was an armed conflict in 2020 that took place in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh, the surrounding territories. It was a major escalation of ...

. * 20 January – The

Ministry of Health Ministry of Health may refer to: Note: Italics indicate now-defunct ministries. * Ministry of Health (Argentina) * Ministry of Health (Armenia) * Australia: ** Ministry of Health (New South Wales) * Ministry of Health (The Bahamas) * Ministry of ...

says that Armenia plans to buy COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca for 3% of the country's population. *22 January – The

Armenian parliament The National Assembly of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետության Ազգային ժողով, ''Hayastani Hanrapetyut'yan Azgayin zhoghov'' or simply Ազգային ժողով, ԱԺ ''Azgayin Zhoghov'', ''AZh''), also infor ...

installs Gagik Jahangirian and Davit Khachaturian in the Supreme Judicial Council, after being nominated to fill two vacant seats by the My Step Alliance.

February

* 25 February – Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warns of an attempted military coup against him after the army demands that he and his government resign.

March

* 5 March – Armenia forcedly to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 due to lack of attention of

Athena Manoukian Athena Manoukian ( gr, Αθηνά Μανουκιάν; ; born 22 May 1994) is a Greek-Armenian singer and songwriter. She was to represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song " Chains on You". Career Manoukian's first exper ...

to participate.

April

* 24 April – US President Joe Biden officially recognized the Armenian genocide. * 25 April – Nikol Pashinyan announced his formal resignation to allow snap elections to be held in June, although he remained as acting prime minister in the leadup to the elections.

June

* 20 June –

2021 Armenian parliamentary election Snap parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 20 June 2021. The elections had initially been scheduled for 9 December 2023, but were called earlier due to a political crisis following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War and an alleged attempted ...

: Acting PM Nikol Pashinyan wins the country's snap election, with his Civil Contract party gaining 54% of the vote.

July

* 23 July-8 August – 17 athletes from Armenia competed at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

in Tokyo,

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

September

* 21 September – Armenia celebrated its 30th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union.

December

* 19 December –

Maléna Malena may refer to: People Professional name * Maléna (singer) (born 2007), Armenian singer Given name *Malena Ernman (born 1970), Swedish opera singer *Malena Alterio (born 1974), Argentine-born Spanish actress *Malena Josephsen (born 1977), ...

wins the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song " Qami Qami".

Predicted and scheduled events

2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group J The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group J was one of the ten UEFA groups in the World Cup qualification tournament to decide which teams would qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals tournament in Qatar. Group J consisted of six teams ...

** 25 March –

2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualificationAlso the "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Qualifiers". was the qualifying process which decided the 31 teams that would join hosts Qatar, who received an automatic spot, at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Parallel tourn ...

: Liechtenstein v. Armenia ** 28 March –

: Armenia v. Iceland ** 31 March –

: Armenia v. Romania ** 2 September –

: North Macedonia v. Armenia ** 5 September –

: Germany v. Armenia ** 8 September –

: Armenia v. Liechtenstein ** 8 October –

: Iceland v. Armenia ** 11 October –

: Romania v. Armenia ** 11 November –

: Armenia v. North Macedonia ** 14 November –

: Armenia v. Germany

Deaths

* 31 March – Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, military leader (b. 1939) * 6 July –

Djivan Gasparyan Djivan Gasparyan (var. Jivan Gasparyan; hy, Ջիվան Գասպարյան, ; October 12, 1928 – July 6, 2021) was an Armenian musician and composer. He played the duduk, a double reed woodwind instrument related to the orchestral oboe. Gaspary ...

, musician and composer (b. 1928) * 29 September – Hayko, singer and songwriter (b. 1973)

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