The Russian Embassy in Armenia responded to the recent statement of the governor of the Chirak region, David Arushanyan. In a post on social networks, in response to the representatives of "Strong Armenia", he wrote that "Gyumri is not your Nizhny Tabor, and the people of Gyumri are not your "Ivans". The diplomatic mission noted that the mention of certain "Ivans" is inevitably similar to the vocabulary of the German Nazis during the Great Patriotic War. "I would not like to think that the official in charge of the area where the 102nd Russian military base and the Russian border guard serve, considers it acceptable to make public statements that could provoke national hostility towards the Russians." - said the embassy in a statement. They emphasized that this would fundamentally contradict the centuries-old spirit of friendship between nations.