As of 2018, there were 1,879 Armenian citizen with a residence permit in the Czech Republic.
[2] Most have come to the region after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, others fleeing poor economic conditions in the Armenian Republic.
The Armenian Community in the Czech Republic is still growing, as signified with the opening of an Armenian Saturday school in Prague in 1996, the establishment of an Armenian Cultural Center and the later establishment of the Orer (Օրեր) magazine (1999), edited by Hakob Asatryan, a former journalist for the Azg (Ազգ) paper in Yerevan who moved to Prague around 1998.
[2] Armenian migrants freely speak the Russian language which was a subject needed at Czech schools until the end of the 1980s.
The knowledge of Russian may make it easier for Armenians to communicate with locals, and those of the older generation.