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Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Armeenia poliitika" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%91%CF%81%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82" title="Πολιτική της Αρμενίας – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Πολιτική της Αρμενίας" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol%C3%ADtica_de_Armenia" title="Política de Armenia – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Política de Armenia" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politiko_de_Armenio" title="Politiko de Armenio – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Politiko de Armenio" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86" title="سیاست در ارمنستان – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سیاست در ارمنستان" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politique_en_Arm%C3%A9nie" title="Politique en Arménie – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Politique en Arménie" 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style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;padding-bottom:0.5em;"> <p><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States" title="Commonwealth of Independent States"><img alt="Commonwealth of Independent States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_the_CIS.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_CIS.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_the_CIS.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_CIS.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Flag_of_the_CIS.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_CIS.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States" title="Commonwealth of Independent States">CIS Member State</a><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Europe" title="Council of Europe"><img alt="Council 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Court_of_Armenia" title="Constitutional Court of Armenia">Constitutional court</a> <dl><dd>President: <a href="/wiki/Hrayr_Tovmasyan" title="Hrayr Tovmasyan">Hrayr Tovmasyan</a></dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Armenia" title="Human rights in Armenia">Human rights</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:left; background:lavender;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/President_of_Armenia" title="President of Armenia">Head of state</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/President_of_Armenia" title="President of Armenia">President</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Vahagn_Khachaturyan" title="Vahagn Khachaturyan">Vahagn Khachaturyan</a></dd></dl></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:left; background:lavender;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Armenia" title="Government of Armenia">Executive</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Armenia" title="Prime Minister of Armenia">Prime Minister</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Nikol_Pashinyan" title="Nikol Pashinyan">Nikol Pashinyan</a></dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_Armenia" title="Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia">Deputy Prime Minister</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Tigran_Avinyan" title="Tigran Avinyan">Tigran Avinyan</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mher_Grigoryan" title="Mher Grigoryan">Mher Grigoryan</a></dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Pashinyan_government" title="Second Pashinyan government">Current government</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:left; background:lavender;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Armenia)" title="National Assembly (Armenia)">Legislature</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Armenia)" title="National Assembly (Armenia)">National Assembly</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_National_Assembly_of_Armenia" title="President of the National Assembly of Armenia">President</a>: <a href="/wiki/Alen_Simonyan" title="Alen Simonyan">Alen Simonyan</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Members_of_the_National_Assembly_of_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Members of the National Assembly of Armenia">Members</a></dd></dl></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:left; background:lavender;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Judiciary_of_Armenia" title="Judiciary of Armenia">Judiciary</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Law_of_Armenia" title="Law of Armenia">Law</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:left; background:lavender;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Armenia" title="Administrative divisions of Armenia">Administrative divisions</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Armenia" title="Administrative divisions of Armenia">Provinces <span style="font-size:85%;">(<i>marz</i>)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Armenia" title="Municipalities of Armenia">Municipalities <span style="font-size:85%;">(<i>hamaynk</i>)</span></a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:left; background:lavender;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Armenia" title="Elections in Armenia">Elections</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Armenia" title="List of political parties in Armenia">Political parties</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Civil_Contract_(Armenia)" title="Civil Contract (Armenia)">Civil Contract</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Armenia_Alliance" title="Armenia Alliance">Armenia Alliance</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/I_Have_Honor_Alliance" title="I Have Honor Alliance">I Have Honor Alliance</a></dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Electoral_Commission_of_Armenia" title="Central Electoral Commission of Armenia">Central Electoral Commission</a></li> <li>Recent parliamentary elections: <dl><dd><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/2018_Armenian_parliamentary_election" title="2018 Armenian parliamentary election">2018</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/2021_Armenian_parliamentary_election" title="2021 Armenian parliamentary election">2021</a></li><li><i><a href="/wiki/Next_Armenian_parliamentary_election" title="Next Armenian parliamentary election">Next</a></i></li></ul></div></dd></dl></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:left; background:lavender;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Armenia" title="Foreign relations of Armenia">Foreign relations</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Armenia)" title="Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Armenia)">Ministry of Foreign Affairs</a> <dl><dd>Minister: <a href="/wiki/Ararat_Mirzoyan" title="Ararat Mirzoyan">Ararat Mirzoyan</a></dd></dl></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_of_Armenia" title="List of diplomatic missions of Armenia">Diplomatic missions of</a> / <a href="/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_Armenia" title="List of diplomatic missions in Armenia">in Armenia</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_nationality_law" title="Armenian nationality law">Nationality law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_passport" title="Armenian passport">Passport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_diaspora" title="Armenian diaspora">Diaspora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Armenian_citizens" title="Visa requirements for Armenian citizens">Visa requirements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Visa_policy_of_Armenia" title="Visa policy of Armenia">Visa policy</a></li></ul> <hr /> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93BSEC_relations" title="Armenia–BSEC relations">Armenia–BSEC relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia_in_the_Council_of_Europe" title="Armenia in the Council of Europe">Armenia–Council of Europe relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93CSTO_relations" title="Armenia–CSTO relations">Armenia–CSTO relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93European_Union_relations" title="Armenia–European Union relations">Armenia–European Union relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93NATO_relations" title="Armenia–NATO relations">Armenia–NATO relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93OSCE_relations" title="Armenia–OSCE relations">Armenia–OSCE relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia_and_the_United_Nations" title="Armenia and the United Nations">Armenia–United Nations relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93Artsakh_relations" title="Armenia–Artsakh relations">Armenia–Artsakh relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93Azerbaijan_relations" title="Armenia–Azerbaijan relations">Armenia–Azerbaijan relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93Georgia_relations" title="Armenia–Georgia relations">Armenia–Georgia relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93Iran_relations" title="Armenia–Iran relations">Armenia–Iran relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93Russia_relations" title="Armenia–Russia relations">Armenia–Russia relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93Turkey_relations" title="Armenia–Turkey relations">Armenia–Turkey relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="Armenia–United States relations">Armenia–United States relations</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:left; background:lavender;;color: var(--color-base)">Related topics</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_genocide_recognition" title="Armenian genocide recognition">Armenian genocide recognition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Armenia" title="History of Armenia">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OSCE_Minsk_Group" title="OSCE Minsk Group">OSCE Minsk Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Artsakh" title="Politics of Artsakh">Politics of Artsakh</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below"> <div class="hlist" style="text-align:center;font-weight:normal;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_political_science#Politics_by_region" title="Outline of political science">Other countries</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Politics_of_Armenia" title="Template:Politics of Armenia"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Politics_of_Armenia" title="Template talk:Politics of Armenia"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Politics_of_Armenia" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Politics of Armenia"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>politics of Armenia</b> take place in the framework of the <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary">parliamentary</a> <a href="/wiki/Representative_democracy" title="Representative democracy">representative democratic</a> <a href="/wiki/Republic" title="Republic">republic</a> of <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>, whereby the <a href="/wiki/President_of_Armenia" title="President of Armenia">president of Armenia</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Head_of_state" title="Head of state">head of state</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Armenia" title="Prime Minister of Armenia">prime minister of Armenia</a> the <a href="/wiki/Head_of_government" title="Head of government">head of government</a>, and of a <a href="/wiki/Multi-party_system" title="Multi-party system">multi-party system</a>. <a href="/wiki/Executive_power" class="mw-redirect" title="Executive power">Executive power</a> is exercised by the president and the Government. <a href="/wiki/Legislative_power" class="mw-redirect" title="Legislative power">Legislative power</a> is vested in both the Government and <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Armenia)" title="National Assembly (Armenia)">Parliament</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Shugart2005-Draft_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shugart2005-Draft-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Shugart2005_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shugart2005-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Markarov2016_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Markarov2016-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Politics_of_Armenia&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Armenia became independent from the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> on 28 May 1918 as the <i>Republic of Armenia</i>, later referred as <a href="/wiki/First_Republic_of_Armenia" title="First Republic of Armenia">First Republic of Armenia</a>. About a month before its independence Armenia was part of short lived <a href="/wiki/Transcaucasian_Democratic_Federative_Republic" title="Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic">Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic</a>. Suffering heavy losses during the <a href="/wiki/Turkish%E2%80%93Armenian_War" title="Turkish–Armenian War">Turkish invasion of Armenia</a> and after the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet invasion of Armenia">Soviet invasion of Armenia</a>, the government of the First Republic resigned on 2 December 1920. <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Russia" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet Russia">Soviet Russia</a> reinstalled its control over the country, which later became part of the <a href="/wiki/Transcaucasian_SFSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Transcaucasian SFSR">Transcaucasian SFSR</a>. The TSFSR was dissolved in 1936 and Armenia became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union known as the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenian SSR">Armenian SSR</a>, later also referred as the <i>Second Republic of Armenia</i>. </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Dissolution of the Soviet Union">dissolution of the Soviet Union</a> the population of <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a> voted overwhelmingly for independence following the <a href="/wiki/1991_Armenian_independence_referendum" title="1991 Armenian independence referendum">1991 Armenian independence referendum</a>. It was followed by a presidential election in October 1991 that gave 83% of the votes to <a href="/wiki/Levon_Ter-Petrosyan" title="Levon Ter-Petrosyan">Levon Ter-Petrosyan</a>. Earlier in 1990, when the <a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Union_of_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="National Democratic Union of Armenia">National Democratic Union party</a> defeated the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Communist_Party" title="Armenian Communist Party">Armenian Communist Party</a>, he was elected Chairman of the Supreme Council of Armenia. Ter-Petrosyan was re-elected in 1996. Following public discontent and demonstrations against his policies on <a href="/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Nagorno-Karabakh Republic">Nagorno-Karabakh</a>, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Robert_Kocharyan" title="Robert Kocharyan">Robert Kocharyan</a>, who was elected as second President in March 1998. Following the <a href="/wiki/1999_Armenian_parliament_shooting" class="mw-redirect" title="1999 Armenian parliament shooting">assassination</a> of Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Vazgen_Sargsyan" title="Vazgen Sargsyan">Vazgen Sargsyan</a>, parliament Speaker <a href="/wiki/Karen_Demirchyan" title="Karen Demirchyan">Karen Demirchyan</a> and six other officials during parliament seating on 27 October 1999, a period of political instability ensued during which an opposition headed by elements of the former Armenian National Movement government attempted unsuccessfully to force Kocharyan to resign. In May 2000, <a href="/wiki/Andranik_Margaryan" title="Andranik Margaryan">Andranik Margaryan</a> replaced <a href="/wiki/Aram_Sargsyan" title="Aram Sargsyan">Aram Sargsyan</a> (a brother of assassinated <a href="/wiki/Vazgen_Sargsyan" title="Vazgen Sargsyan">Vazgen Sargsyan</a>) as Prime Minister. </p><p>Kocharyan's re-election as president in 2003 was followed by widespread allegations of ballot-rigging. He went on to propose controversial constitutional amendments on the role of <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly of Armenia">parliament</a>. These were rejected in a referendum the following May. Concurrent parliamentary elections left Kocharyan's party in a very powerful position in the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly of Armenia">parliament</a>. There were mounting calls for the President's resignation in early 2004 with thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets in support of demands for a referendum of confidence in him. </p><p>The Government of Armenia's stated aim is to build a <a href="/wiki/Western_world" title="Western world">Western-style</a> <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_democracy" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary democracy">parliamentary democracy</a>. However, international observers have questioned the fairness of Armenia's parliamentary and presidential elections and constitutional referendum between 1995 and 2018, citing polling deficiencies, lack of cooperation by the <a href="/wiki/Central_Electoral_Commission_of_Armenia" title="Central Electoral Commission of Armenia">Electoral Commission</a>, and poor maintenance of electoral lists and polling places. Armenia is considered one of the most democratic nations of the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States" title="Commonwealth of Independent States">Commonwealth of Independent States</a> and the most democratic in the <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a> region.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The observance of <a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">human rights</a> in Armenia is uneven and is marked by shortcomings. <a href="/wiki/Police_brutality" title="Police brutality">Police brutality</a> allegedly still goes largely unreported, while observers note that defendants are often beaten to extract confessions and are denied visits from relatives and lawyers. Public demonstrations usually take place without government interference, though one rally in November 2000 by an opposition party was followed by the arrest and imprisonment for a month of its organizer. Freedom of religion is not always protected under existing law. Nontraditional churches, especially the <a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a>, have been subjected to harassment, sometimes violently. All churches apart from the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Apostolic_Church" title="Armenian Apostolic Church">Armenian Apostolic Church</a> must register with the government, and proselytizing was forbidden by law, though since 1997 the government has pursued more moderate policies. The government's policy toward conscientious objection is in transition, as part of Armenia's accession to the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Europe" title="Council of Europe">Council of Europe</a>. </p><p>Armenia boasts a good record on the protection of <a href="/wiki/National_minorities" class="mw-redirect" title="National minorities">national minorities</a>, for whose representatives (<a href="/wiki/Assyrians_in_Armenia" title="Assyrians in Armenia">Assyrians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kurds" title="Kurds">Kurds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russians_in_Armenia" title="Russians in Armenia">Russians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yazidis_in_Armenia" title="Yazidis in Armenia">Yazidis</a>) four seats are reserved in the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_of_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="National Assembly of Armenia">National Assembly</a>. The government does not restrict internal or international travel. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transition_to_a_parliamentary_republic">Transition to a parliamentary republic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Politics_of_Armenia&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Transition to a parliamentary republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In December 2015, the country <a href="/wiki/Armenian_constitutional_referendum,_2015" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenian constitutional referendum, 2015">held a referendum</a> which approved transformation of Armenia from a <a href="/wiki/Semi-presidential_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Semi-presidential system">semi-presidential</a> to a <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_republic" title="Parliamentary republic">parliamentary republic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-controlrisks.com_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-controlrisks.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a result, the president was stripped of his <a href="/wiki/Veto#presidential_veto" title="Veto">veto faculty</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the presidency was downgraded to a figurehead position elected by parliament every seven years. The president is not allowed to be a member of any political party and <a href="/wiki/Re-election" class="mw-redirect" title="Re-election">re-election</a> is forbidden.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Skeptics saw the constitutional reform as an attempt of third president <a href="/wiki/Serzh_Sargsyan" title="Serzh Sargsyan">Serzh Sargsyan</a> to remain in control by becoming <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Armenia" title="Prime Minister of Armenia">Prime Minister</a> after fulfilling his second presidential term in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-controlrisks.com_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-controlrisks.com-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2018, the Armenian parliament elected <a href="/wiki/Armen_Sarkissian" title="Armen Sarkissian">Armen Sarkissian</a> as the new President of Armenia. The controversial constitutional reform to reduce presidential power was implemented, while the authority of the prime minister was strengthened.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 2018, parliament elected opposition leader <a href="/wiki/Nikol_Pashinyan" title="Nikol Pashinyan">Nikol Pashinyan</a> as the new prime minister. His predecessor Serzh Sargsyan resigned two weeks earlier following widespread <a href="/wiki/2018_Armenian_revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="2018 Armenian revolution">anti-government demonstrations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2021, early <a href="/wiki/2021_Armenian_parliamentary_election" title="2021 Armenian parliamentary election">parliamentary elections</a> were held. Nikol Pashinyan's <a href="/wiki/Civil_Contract_(Armenia)" title="Civil Contract (Armenia)">Civil Contract</a> party won 71 seats, while 29 went to the <a href="/wiki/Armenia_Alliance" title="Armenia Alliance">Armenia Alliance</a> headed by former President Robert Kocharyan. The <a href="/wiki/I_Have_Honor_Alliance" title="I Have Honor Alliance">I Have Honor Alliance</a>, which formed around another former president, Serzh Sargsyan, won seven seats. After the election, Armenia's acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was officially appointed to the post of prime minister by the country's president Armen Sarkissian.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In January 2022, Armenian President Armen Sarkissian resigned from office, stating that the constitution does no longer give the president sufficient powers or influence.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 3 March 2022, <a href="/wiki/Vahagn_Khachaturyan" title="Vahagn Khachaturyan">Vahagn Khachaturyan</a> was elected as the fifth president of Armenia in the second round of parliamentary vote.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government">Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Politics_of_Armenia&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Armenia" title="Government of Armenia">Government of Armenia</a></div> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"> <caption>Main office-holders </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Office </th> <th scope="col">Name </th> <th scope="col">Party </th> <th scope="col">Since </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/President_of_Armenia" title="President of Armenia">President</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vahagn_Khachaturyan" title="Vahagn Khachaturyan">Vahagn Khachaturyan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> </td> <td>13 March 2022 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Armenia" title="Prime Minister of Armenia">Prime Minister</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nikol_Pashinyan" title="Nikol Pashinyan">Nikol Pashinyan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Civil_Contract_(Armenia)" title="Civil Contract (Armenia)">Civil Contract</a> </td> <td>8 May 2018 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legislative_branch">Legislative branch</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Politics_of_Armenia&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Legislative branch"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Armenia)" title="National Assembly (Armenia)">National Assembly (Armenia)</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Unicameral" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicameral">unicameral</a> <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Armenia)" title="National Assembly (Armenia)">National Assembly of Armenia</a> (<i>Azgayin Zhoghov</i>) is the <a href="/wiki/Legislative_branch" class="mw-redirect" title="Legislative branch">legislative branch</a> of the government of <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a>. </p><p>Before the <a href="/wiki/2015_Armenian_constitutional_referendum" title="2015 Armenian constitutional referendum">2015 Armenian constitutional referendum</a>, it was initially made of 131 members, elected for five-year terms: 41 members in single-seat constituencies and 90 by proportional representation.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The proportional-representation seats in the National Assembly are assigned on a party-list basis among those parties that receive at least 5% of the total of the number of the votes. </p><p>Following the 2015 referendum, the number of MPs was reduced from the original 131 members to 101 and single-seat constituencies were removed.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_parties_and_elections">Political parties and elections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Politics_of_Armenia&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Political parties and elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Armenia" title="List of political parties in Armenia">List of political parties in Armenia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Programs_of_political_parties_in_Armenia" title="Programs of political parties in Armenia">Programs of political parties in Armenia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Armenia" title="Elections in Armenia">Elections in Armenia</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Electoral_threshold" title="Electoral threshold">electoral threshold</a> is currently set at 5% for single parties and 7% for blocs.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Latest_national_elections">Latest national elections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Politics_of_Armenia&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Latest national elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2021_Armenian_parliamentary_election" title="2021 Armenian parliamentary election">2021 Armenian parliamentary election</a></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"><caption></caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="6" style="text-align:center;color:var( --color-base, #202122 );background:var( --background-color-neutral, #F8F9FA )"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Arm%C3%A9nie_Assembl%C3%A9e_nationale_2021.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Arm%C3%A9nie_Assembl%C3%A9e_nationale_2021.svg/360px-Arm%C3%A9nie_Assembl%C3%A9e_nationale_2021.svg.png" decoding="async" width="360" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Arm%C3%A9nie_Assembl%C3%A9e_nationale_2021.svg/540px-Arm%C3%A9nie_Assembl%C3%A9e_nationale_2021.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Arm%C3%A9nie_Assembl%C3%A9e_nationale_2021.svg/720px-Arm%C3%A9nie_Assembl%C3%A9e_nationale_2021.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="185" /></a></span></th></tr><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2">Party</th><th scope="col">Votes</th><th scope="col">%</th><th scope="col">Seats</th><th scope="col">+/–</th></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#5169B1"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Civil_Contract_(Armenia)" title="Civil Contract (Armenia)">Civil Contract</a></td><td style="text-align:right">688,761</td><td style="text-align:right">53.95</td><td style="text-align:right">71</td><td style="text-align:right">–17<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#1D2E69"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Armenia_Alliance" title="Armenia Alliance">Armenia Alliance</a></td><td style="text-align:right">269,481</td><td style="text-align:right">21.11</td><td style="text-align:right">29</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#D9222A"></td><td><a href="/wiki/I_Have_Honor_Alliance" title="I Have Honor Alliance">I Have Honor Alliance</a></td><td style="text-align:right">66,650</td><td style="text-align:right">5.22</td><td style="text-align:right">6</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#183883"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Prosperous_Armenia" title="Prosperous Armenia">Prosperous Armenia</a></td><td style="text-align:right">50,444</td><td style="text-align:right">3.95</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">–26</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#F8B202"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Hanrapetutyun_Party" title="Hanrapetutyun Party">Hanrapetutyun Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">38,758</td><td style="text-align:right">3.04</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#0033A0"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Armenian_National_Congress" title="Armenian National Congress">Armenian National Congress</a></td><td style="text-align:right">19,691</td><td style="text-align:right">1.54</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#CD383A"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Shirinyan-Babajanyan_Alliance_of_Democrats" title="Shirinyan-Babajanyan Alliance of Democrats">Shirinyan-Babajanyan Alliance of Democrats</a></td><td style="text-align:right">19,212</td><td style="text-align:right">1.50</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#292929"></td><td><a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Pole" title="National Democratic Pole">National Democratic Pole</a></td><td style="text-align:right">18,976</td><td style="text-align:right">1.49</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#6D2889"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Bright_Armenia" title="Bright Armenia">Bright Armenia</a></td><td style="text-align:right">15,591</td><td style="text-align:right">1.22</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">–18</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#0d215c"></td><td><a href="/wiki/5165_National_Conservative_Movement_Party" title="5165 National Conservative Movement Party">5165 National Conservative Movement Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">15,549</td><td style="text-align:right">1.22</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FF6600"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(Armenia)" title="Liberal Party (Armenia)">Liberal Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">14,936</td><td style="text-align:right">1.17</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#641d15"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Homeland_of_Armenians_Party" title="Homeland of Armenians Party">Homeland of Armenians Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">13,130</td><td style="text-align:right">1.03</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#E40510"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Armenia_is_Our_Home" title="Armenia is Our Home">Armenia is Our Home Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">12,149</td><td style="text-align:right">0.95</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#EC1B24"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Armenia" title="Democratic Party of Armenia">Democratic Party of Armenia</a></td><td style="text-align:right">5,020</td><td style="text-align:right">0.39</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#122D3F"></td><td><a href="/wiki/National_Christian_Party_(Armenia)" title="National Christian Party (Armenia)">Awakening National Christian Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">4,619</td><td style="text-align:right">0.36</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#000000"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Free_Homeland_Alliance" title="Free Homeland Alliance">Free Homeland Alliance</a></td><td style="text-align:right">4,119</td><td style="text-align:right">0.32</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#092366"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Sovereign_Armenia_Party" title="Sovereign Armenia Party">Sovereign Armenia Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">3,915</td><td style="text-align:right">0.31</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#DF7333"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Fair_Armenia_Party" title="Fair Armenia Party">Fair Armenia Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">3,914</td><td style="text-align:right">0.31</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#82bb29"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Citizen%27s_Decision" title="Citizen's Decision">Citizen's Decision</a></td><td style="text-align:right">3,775</td><td style="text-align:right">0.30</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#003399"></td><td><a href="/wiki/European_Party_of_Armenia" title="European Party of Armenia">European Party of Armenia</a></td><td style="text-align:right">2,440</td><td style="text-align:right">0.19</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#00194C"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Freedom_Party_(Armenia)" title="Freedom Party (Armenia)">Freedom Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1,844</td><td style="text-align:right">0.14</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#2E127D"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Rise_Party" title="Rise Party">Rise Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1,233</td><td style="text-align:right">0.10</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#203763"></td><td><a href="/wiki/United_Homeland_Party" title="United Homeland Party">United Homeland Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">964</td><td style="text-align:right">0.08</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#0620FD"></td><td><a href="/wiki/All-Armenian_National_Statehood_Party" title="All-Armenian National Statehood Party">All-Armenian National Statehood Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">803</td><td style="text-align:right">0.06</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#1E2144"></td><td><a href="/wiki/National_Agenda_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="National Agenda Party">National Agenda Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">719</td><td style="text-align:right">0.06</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="font-weight:bold"><td colspan="2">Total</td><td style="text-align:right">1,276,693</td><td style="text-align:right">100.00</td><td style="text-align:right">106</td><td style="text-align:right">–25</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom"><td colspan="6" style="color:var( --color-base, #202122 );background:var( --background-color-neutral, #eaecf0 )"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Valid votes</th><td>1,276,693</td><td>99.63</td><td colspan="2"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Invalid/blank votes</th><td>4,682</td><td>0.37</td><td colspan="2"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="font-weight:bold;text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;background:inherit;color:inherit">Total votes</th><td>1,281,375</td><td>100.00</td><td colspan="2"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Registered voters/turnout</th><td>2,595,334</td><td>49.37</td><td colspan="2"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><td colspan="6" style="text-align:left">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.am/eng/news/651069.html">news.am</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://res.elections.am/images/doc/20.06.21n.pdf">CEC</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hetq.am/en/article/132734">Hetq</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Latest_presidential_elections">Latest presidential elections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Politics_of_Armenia&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Latest presidential elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2022_Armenian_presidential_election" title="2022 Armenian presidential election">2022 Armenian presidential election</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Independent_agencies">Independent agencies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Politics_of_Armenia&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Independent agencies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Independent of three traditional branches are the following <a href="/wiki/Independent_agencies" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent agencies">independent agencies</a>, each with separate powers and responsibilities:<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>the <a href="/wiki/Constitutional_Court_of_Armenia" title="Constitutional Court of Armenia">Constitutional Court of Armenia</a></li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Central_Electoral_Commission_of_Armenia" title="Central Electoral Commission of Armenia">Central Electoral Commission of Armenia</a></li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Defender_of_Armenia" title="Human Rights Defender of Armenia">Human Rights Defender of Armenia</a></li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Armenia" title="Central Bank of Armenia">Central Bank of Armenia</a></li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Prosecutor_General_of_Armenia" title="Prosecutor General of Armenia">Prosecutor General of Armenia</a></li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Audit_Chamber_of_Armenia" title="Audit Chamber of Armenia">Audit Chamber of Armenia</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Corruption">Corruption</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Politics_of_Armenia&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Corruption"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Armenia" title="Corruption in Armenia">Corruption in Armenia</a></div> <p>Transparency International's 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index ranked Armenia 58th<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> out of 180 in the world with 49 points (the same number of points as 2020), this has pushed the country up from being ranked at 60th in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-transparency.org_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-transparency.org-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Transparency International, Armenia has improved significantly on the <a href="/wiki/Corruption_Perception_Index" class="mw-redirect" title="Corruption Perception Index">Corruption Perception Index</a> since 2012, especially since the <a href="/wiki/2018_Armenian_revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="2018 Armenian revolution">2018 revolution</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the country has taken steps to counter corruption. Further mentioning that "Armenia has taken a gradual approach to reform, resulting in steady and positive improvements in anti-corruption. However, safeguarding <a href="/wiki/Judiciary_of_Armenia" title="Judiciary of Armenia">judicial independence</a> and ensuring checks and balances remain critical first steps in its anti-corruption efforts. The effectiveness of those efforts is additionally challenged by the current political and economic crisis as a result of the recent <a href="/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_war" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war">Nagorno Karabakh conflict</a> and the subsequent protests against Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Nikol_Pashinyan" title="Nikol Pashinyan">Nikol Pashinyan</a> over a <a href="/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_ceasefire_agreement" title="2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement">ceasefire deal</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-transparency.org_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-transparency.org-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2008, <a href="/wiki/Transparency_International" title="Transparency International">Transparency International</a> reduced its <a href="/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index" title="Corruption Perceptions Index">Corruption Perceptions Index</a> for Armenia from 3.0 in 2007<sup id="cite_ref-TI-GCP-2008-p225_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TI-GCP-2008-p225-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to 2.9 out of 10 (a lower score means more perceived corruption); Armenia slipped from 99th place in 2007 to 109th out of 180 countries surveyed (on a par with <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Argentina" title="Corruption in Argentina">Argentina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belize" title="Belize">Belize</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Moldova" title="Corruption in Moldova">Moldova</a>, <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Vanuatu" class="mw-redirect" title="Corruption in Vanuatu">Vanuatu</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-2008-CPI-Table_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2008-CPI-Table-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span 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.cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFShugart2005" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Matthew_S%C3%B8berg_Shugart" title="Matthew Søberg Shugart">Shugart, Matthew Søberg</a> (September 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080819200307/http://dss.ucsd.edu/~mshugart/semi-presidentialism.pdf">"Semi-Presidential Systems: Dual Executive and Mixed Authority Patterns"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="/wiki/Graduate_School_of_International_Relations_and_Pacific_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies">Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies</a>. <i>dss.ucsd.edu</i>. United States: <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_San_Diego" title="University of California, San Diego">University of California, San Diego</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dss.ucsd.edu/~mshugart/semi-presidentialism.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 19 August 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 October</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=dss.ucsd.edu&rft.atitle=Semi-Presidential+Systems%3A+Dual+Executive+and+Mixed+Authority+Patterns&rft.date=2005-09&rft.aulast=Shugart&rft.aufirst=Matthew+S%C3%B8berg&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdss.ucsd.edu%2F~mshugart%2Fsemi-presidentialism.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APolitics+of+Armenia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Shugart2005-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Shugart2005_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShugart2005" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Matthew_S%C3%B8berg_Shugart" title="Matthew Søberg Shugart">Shugart, Matthew Søberg</a> (December 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fpalgrave.fp.8200087.pdf">"Semi-Presidential Systems: Dual Executive And Mixed Authority Patterns"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="/wiki/Graduate_School_of_International_Relations_and_Pacific_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies">Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_San_Diego" title="University of California, San Diego">University of California, San Diego</a>. <i>French Politics</i>. <b>3</b> (3): <span class="nowrap">323–</span>351. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1057%2Fpalgrave.fp.8200087">10.1057/palgrave.fp.8200087</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1476-3427">1476-3427</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/6895745903">6895745903</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fpalgrave.fp.8200087.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 2022-10-09<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 October</span> 2017</span>. <q>Table 1 shows that dissolution power as a presidential initiative is rare in the contemporary president-parliamentary systems. In fact, only in Armenia may the president dissolve (once per year) without a trigger (e.g. assembly failure to invest a government).</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=French+Politics&rft.atitle=Semi-Presidential+Systems%3A+Dual+Executive+And+Mixed+Authority+Patterns&rft.volume=3&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E323-%3C%2Fspan%3E351&rft.date=2005-12&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F6895745903&rft.issn=1476-3427&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1057%2Fpalgrave.fp.8200087&rft.aulast=Shugart&rft.aufirst=Matthew+S%C3%B8berg&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Fcontent%2Fpdf%2F10.1057%252Fpalgrave.fp.8200087.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APolitics+of+Armenia" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Markarov2016-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Markarov2016_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMarkarov2016" class="citation book cs1">Markarov, Alexander (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-38781-3">"Semi-presidentialism in Armenia"</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Robert_Elgie_(academic)" title="Robert Elgie (academic)">Elgie, Robert</a>; <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sophia_Moestrup&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sophia Moestrup (page does not exist)">Moestrup, Sophia</a> (eds.). <i>Semi-Presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia</i>. London: <a href="/wiki/Palgrave_Macmillan" title="Palgrave Macmillan">Palgrave Macmillan</a> UK (published 15 May 2016). pp. <span class="nowrap">61–</span>90. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1057%2F978-1-137-38781-3_3">10.1057/978-1-137-38781-3_3</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-137-38780-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-137-38780-6"><bdi>978-1-137-38780-6</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/LCCN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/2016939393">2016939393</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/6039792321">6039792321</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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title="Politics of Åland">Åland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Faroe_Islands" title="Politics of the Faroe Islands">Faroe Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Gibraltar" title="Politics of Gibraltar">Gibraltar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Guernsey" class="mw-redirect" title="Politics of Guernsey">Guernsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_Isle_of_Man" title="Politics of the Isle of Man">Isle of Man</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Jersey" title="Politics of Jersey">Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Svalbard" title="Politics of Svalbard">Svalbard</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other entities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_European_Union" title="Politics of the European Union">European Union</a></li></ul> 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title="Parthian Empire">Parthian Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Armenia" title="Byzantine Armenia">Byzantine Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sasanian_Armenia" title="Sasanian Armenia">Sasanian Armenia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Middle</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arminiya" title="Arminiya">Arminiya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sajid_dynasty" title="Sajid dynasty">Sajids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagratid_Armenia" title="Bagratid Armenia">Bagratid Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Kingdom_of_Cilicia" title="Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia">Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sallarid_dynasty" title="Sallarid dynasty">Sallarids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ilkhanate" title="Ilkhanate">Ilkhanate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chobanids" title="Chobanids">Chobanids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aq_Qoyunlu" title="Aq Qoyunlu">Aq Qoyunlu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kara_Koyunlu" class="mw-redirect" title="Kara Koyunlu">Kara Koyunlu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenians_in_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="Armenians in the Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_Armenia_(1502%E2%80%931828)" title="Iranian Armenia (1502–1828)">1508–1828 Iranian Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Safavid_Iran" title="Safavid Iran">Safavid Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afsharid_Iran" title="Afsharid Iran">Afsharid Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qajar_dynasty" title="Qajar dynasty">Qajar Iran</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erivan_Khanate" title="Erivan Khanate">Erivan Khanate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karabakh_Khanate" title="Karabakh Khanate">Karabakh Khanate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Turkmenchay" title="Treaty of Turkmenchay">Treaty of Turkmenchay</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Armenia" title="Russian Armenia">Russian Armenia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Republic_of_Armenia" title="First Republic of Armenia">First Republic of Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic">Soviet Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Armenia#Independent_Armenia_(1991-today)" title="History of Armenia">Independent Armenia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">By topic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_genocide" title="Armenian genocide">Armenian genocide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict" title="Nagorno-Karabakh conflict">Nagorno-Karabakh conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_national_movement" title="Armenian national movement">Armenian national movement</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Category:History_of_Armenia" title="Category:History of Armenia">more...</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia"><img alt="Armenia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Arms_of_Armenia.svg/80px-Arms_of_Armenia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Arms_of_Armenia.svg/120px-Arms_of_Armenia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Arms_of_Armenia.svg/160px-Arms_of_Armenia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="170" data-file-height="192" 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href="/wiki/Extreme_points_of_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Extreme points of Armenia">Extreme points</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Sevan" title="Lake Sevan">Lake Sevan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountains_of_Armenia" title="Mountains of Armenia">Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipalities_of_Armenia" title="Municipalities of Armenia">Municipalities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rivers_of_Armenia" title="List of rivers of Armenia">Rivers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_lakes_of_Armenia" title="List of lakes of Armenia">Lakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shikahogh_State_Reserve" title="Shikahogh State Reserve">Shikahogh State Reserve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirak_Plain" title="Shirak Plain">Shirak Plain</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Category:Geography_of_Armenia" title="Category:Geography of Armenia">more...</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Politics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Armenia" title="Administrative divisions of Armenia">Administrative divisions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Armenia" title="Constitution of Armenia">Constitution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Armenia" title="Corruption in Armenia">Corruption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Armenia" title="Elections in Armenia">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Armenia" title="Foreign relations of Armenia">Foreign relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Armenia" title="Government of Armenia">Government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Armenia" title="Human rights in Armenia">Human rights</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Armenia">LGBT rights</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judiciary_of_Armenia" title="Judiciary of Armenia">Judiciary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Armenia" title="Armed Forces of Armenia">Military</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Armenia)" title="National Assembly (Armenia)">National Assembly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Security_Service_(Armenia)" title="National Security Service (Armenia)">National Security Service</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Police_of_Armenia" title="Police of Armenia">Police</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Armenia" title="List of political parties in Armenia">Political parties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/President_of_Armenia" title="President of Armenia">President</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Armenia" title="Prime Minister of Armenia">Prime Minister</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_National_Assembly_of_Armenia" title="President of the National Assembly of Armenia">President of the National Assembly</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Category:Government_of_Armenia" title="Category:Government of Armenia">more on government</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Category:Politics_of_Armenia" title="Category:Politics of Armenia">on politics</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Armenia" title="Economy of Armenia">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agriculture_in_Armenia" title="Agriculture in Armenia">Agriculture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Stock_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenian Stock Exchange">AMX (stock exchange)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Armenia" title="Central Bank of Armenia">Central Bank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Depository_of_Armenia" title="Central Depository of Armenia">Central Depository </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_dram" title="Armenian dram">Dram (currency)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energy_in_Armenia" title="Energy in Armenia">Energy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mineral_industry_of_Armenia" title="Mineral industry of Armenia">Mining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pensions_in_Armenia" title="Pensions in Armenia">Pension reform</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taxation_in_Armenia" title="Taxation in Armenia">Taxation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Armenia" title="Telecommunications in Armenia">Telecommunications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_Armenia" title="Tourism in Armenia">Tourism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waste_management_in_Armenia" title="Waste management in Armenia">Waste management</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Armenia" title="Transport in Armenia">Transport</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_Caucasus_Railway" title="South Caucasus Railway">South Caucasus Railway</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Armenia" title="Culture of Armenia">Culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" 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Armenian">Western</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_literature" title="Armenian literature">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Armenia" title="Music of Armenia">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sport_in_Armenia" title="Sport in Armenia">Sport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theater_of_Armenia" title="Theater of Armenia">Theatre</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Category:Culture_of_Armenia" title="Category:Culture of Armenia">more...</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Armenia" title="Demographics of Armenia">Demographics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Census_in_Armenia" title="Census in Armenia">Census</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Armenia" title="Crime in Armenia">Crime</a></li> <li><a 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navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Apostolic_Church" title="Armenian Apostolic Church">Armenian Apostolic Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Catholic_Church" title="Armenian Catholic Church">Armenian Catholic Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Evangelical_Church" title="Armenian Evangelical Church">Armenian Evangelical Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Brotherhood_Church" title="Armenian Brotherhood Church">Armenian Brotherhood Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Armenia" title="History of the Jews in Armenia">Judaism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Armenia" title="Islam in Armenia">Islam</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Category:Religion_in_Armenia" title="Category:Religion in Armenia">more...</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0.5em;font-weight:normal;"><a 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