A smile flickers at the edge of his lips, then "I like the name, but no." He says "But the name of the city is Yerevan, and one of the reasons it is so important to historians is that it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. In fact, it's had people in it living since 782 BC. That's right, take 2019, add 782 years onto that, and you get how impressive that is. Now, about the Russia thing, good answer, because Russia was once part of the now fallen Soviet Union, and that big bear gobbled Armenia up in 1922 and held onto it until 1990. Now before that, it suffered one of the earliest genocides of the modern age, a slaughter that the government of Turkey still denies to this very day"