Armenian Minister Calls for Immigration and an End to the "Mono-Ethnic Mindset"

Armenian Minister Calls for Immigration and an End to the "Mono-Ethnic Mindset"

Armenia has spent decades defining itself as a demographic exception in a region marked by ethnic fault lines, wars, and mass displacement. A small country of barely three million inhabitants, with a population that is homogeneously 97–98% Armenian, it is built politically around national survival in the wake of the Ottoman genocide, the Soviet collapse, and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Now, for the first time, figures close to Prime Minister …