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 1 March – The Armenia–EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement entered into force. 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. May 19 May – The European Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of accession negotiations between the European Union and Turkey. The Parliament also urged Turkey to recognize the Armenian genocide as soon as possible.
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. November 21 November – Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan announced that Armenia was ready to begin talks with Turkey on the normalization of relations without preconditions. 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)
See also Outline of Armenia List of Armenia-related topics History of Armenia
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