2021 in Armenia
# 2021 in Armenia

This is a list of individuals and events related to Armenia in 2021.

## 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

### January

* 18 January – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that Armenia has returned all Azeri prisoners who were captured during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
* 20 January – The Ministry of Health says that Armenia plans to buy COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca for 3% of the country's population.
* 22 January – The Armenian parliament 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 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: 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 in Tokyo, Japan

### September

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

### December

* 19 December – Maléna wins the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Qami Qami".

## Predicted and scheduled events

* 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group J
   * 25 March – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Liechtenstein v. Armenia
   * 28 March – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Armenia v. Iceland
   * 31 March – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Armenia v. Romania
   * 2 September – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: North Macedonia v. Armenia
   * 5 September – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Germany v. Armenia
   * 8 September – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Armenia v. Liechtenstein
   * 8 October – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Iceland v. Armenia
   * 11 October – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Romania v. Armenia
   * 11 November – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Armenia v. North Macedonia
   * 14 November – 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Armenia v. Germany

## Deaths

* 31 March – Arkady Ter-Tadevosyan, military leader (b. 1939)
* 6 July – Djivan Gasparyan, musician and composer (b. 1928)
* 29 September – Hayko, singer and songwriter (b. 1973)
