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)

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)