However, due to hostilities with neighboring Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh virtually all Azeris emigrated from Armenia.
This forceful population exchange also affected the Christian Udi people of Azerbaijan, many of whom were perceived as Armenians due to close cultural ties between both peoples.
[2] Additionally since independence, several other ethnic groups have emigrated especially Russians (who decreased from 51,555 persons in 1989[1] to 14,660 in 2001[3]), Ukrainians (8,341 in 1989[1] to 1,633 in 2001[3]), Greeks (4,650 in 1989[1] to 1,176 in 2001[3]), and Belarusians (1,061 in 1989[1] to 160 in 2001[4]).
Although Georgians were historically counted among the largest ethnic groups in modern Armenia, their numbers have dropped substantially since the 1989 Soviet census when they numbered 1,364 persons.
The National Assembly adopted the law "On Census" in 1999, but the government lacked the necessary funds to carry out the count immediately.