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"Languages": {
"text": "Armenian (official) 97.9%, Kurdish (spoken by Yezidi minority) 1%, other 1%; note - Russian is widely spoken (2011 est.)"
},
"printed major-language sample": {
"major-language sample(s)": {
"text": "<br>Աշխարհի Փաստագիրք, Անփոխարինելի Աղբյւր Հիմնական Տեղեկատվւթյան. (Armenian)<br><br>The World Factbook, the indispensable source for basic information."
}
},
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"Suffrage": {
"text": "18 years of age; universal"
},
"Legislative branch": {
"description": {
"text": "unicameral National Assembly (Parliament) or Azgayin Zhoghov (minimum 101 seats, current - 132; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by closed party-list proportional representation vote; the quota for the proportion of women MPs on each party list must be at least one of three candidates; political parties must meet a 5% threshold and alliances a 7% threshold to win seats; members serve 5-year terms)"
},
"elections": {
"text": "last held early on 20 June 2021 (next to be held in June 2026)"
},
"election results": {
"text": "percent of vote by party - Civil Contract 53.9%, Armenia Alliance 21.0%, I Have Honour Alliance 5.2%; seats by party - Civil Contract 72 of 105 seats, Armenia Alliance 27, I Have Honour Alliance 6; composition - men 101, women 31, percent of women 23.5%"
}
},
"Executive branch": {
"chief of state": {
"text": "President Armen SARKISSIAN (since 9 April 2018)"
},
"head of government": {
"text": "Prime Minister (vacant); Deputy Prime Ministers Mher GRIGORYAN and Tigran AVINYAN (since 16 January 2019); note - Prime Minister Nikol PASHINYAN resigned on 25 April 2021"
"text": "Prime Minister Nikol PASHINYAN (since 2 August 2021); Deputy Prime Ministers Mher GRIGORYAN and Tigran AVINYAN (since 16 January 2019); note - Prime Minister Nikol PASHINYAN resigned on 25 April 2021; he was reappointed by the President on 02 August 2021"
},
"cabinet": {
"text": "Council of Ministers appointed by the prime minister"
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},
"note": "<strong>note:</strong> After initially winning election on 8 May 2018, Nikol PASHINYAN resigned his post (but stayed on as acting prime minister) on 16 October 2018 to force a snap election (held on 9 December 2018) in which his bloc won more than 70% of the vote; PASHINYAN was reappointed prime minister on 14 January 2019"
},
"Legislative branch": {
"description": {
"text": "unicameral National Assembly (Parliament) or Azgayin Zhoghov (minimum 101 seats, current - 132; members directly elected in single-seat constituencies by closed party-list proportional representation vote; the quota for the proportion of women MPs on each party list must be at least one of three candidates; political parties must meet a 5% threshold and alliances a 7% threshold to win seats; members serve 5-year terms)"
},
"elections": {
"text": "last held early on 20 June 2021 (next to be held in June 2026)"
},
"election results": {
"text": "percent of vote by party - Civil Contract 53.9%, Armenia Alliance 21.0%, I Have Honour Alliance 5.2%; seats by party - Civil Contract 72 of 105 seats, Armenia Alliance 27, I Have Honour Alliance 6; composition - men 101, women 31, percent of women 23.5%"
}
},
"Judicial branch": {
"highest courts": {
"text": "Court of Cassation (consists of the Criminal Chamber with a chairman and 5 judges and the Civil and Administrative Chamber with a chairman and 10 judges with both civil and administrative specializations); Constitutional Court (consists of 9 judges)"
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},
"Diplomatic representation in the US": {
"chief of mission": {
"text": "Ambassador Varuzhan NERSESSYAN (since 11 January 2019)"
"text": "Ambassador (vacant since late July 2021)"
},
"chancery": {
"text": "2225 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20008"
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"text": "Ambassador Lynne M. TRACEY (since 5 March 2019)"
},
"telephone": {
"text": "[374](10) 464-700"
"text": "[374] (10) 464-700"
},
"embassy": {
"text": "<p>1 American Ave., Yerevan 0082</p>"
},
"mailing address": {
"text": "American Embassy Yerevan, US Department of State, 7020 Yerevan Place, Washington, DC 20521-7020"
"text": "7020 Yerevan Place, Washington, DC&nbsp; 20521-7020"
},
"FAX": {
"text": "[374](10) 464-742"
"text": "[374] (10) 464-742"
},
"email address": {
"text": "acsyerevan@state.gov"
}
},
"Flag description": {
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}
},
"Military and security service personnel strengths": {
"text": "the Armenian Armed Forces have approximately 45,000 active troops (42,000 ground; 3,000 air/defense) (2020)"
"text": "the Armenian Armed Forces have approximately 45,000 active troops (42,000 ground; 3,000 air/defense) (2021)"
},
"Military equipment inventories and acquisitions": {
"text": "the inventory of the Armenian Armed Forces includes mostly Russian and Soviet-era equipment; since 2010, almost all of Armenia's weapons imports have come from Russia (2020)"
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"text": "18-27 years of age for voluntary or compulsory military service; 2-year conscript service obligation, which can be served as an officer upon deferment for university studies if enrolled in officer-producing program; 17 year olds are eligible to become cadets at military higher education institutes, where they are classified as military personnel (2019)"
},
"Military - note": {
"text": "since November 2020, Russia has deployed about 2,000 peacekeeping troops to the area in and around Nagorno-Karabakh as part of a cease-fire agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan; fighting erupted between the two countries over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in September of 2020; Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under control of ethnic Armenian forces (the \"Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army\") backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994; six weeks of fighting resulted in about 6,000 deaths and ended after Armenia ceded swathes of Nagorno-Karabakh territory"
"text": "since November 2020, Russia has deployed about 2,000 peacekeeping troops to the area in and around Nagorno-Karabakh as part of a cease-fire agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan; fighting erupted between the two countries over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in September of 2020; Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under control of ethnic Armenian forces (the \"Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army\") backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994; six weeks of fighting resulted in about 6,000 deaths and ended after Armenia ceded swathes of Nagorno-Karabakh territory; tensions remain high, and Armenia has accused Azerbaijani forces of a series of border intrusions and of seizing pockets of territory including along a lake shared by the two countries since the fighting ended"
}
},
"Transnational Issues": {