To satisfy my own idle curiosity, I checked the bottle of Anush brandy that I have in the china cabinet. (It's on display by virtue of the bottle, which is crafted into the shape of a horse.) The label identifies it as "Armenian Brandy," which is proper. The Cyrillic letters on the back, however, identify it as "Armyanskii Konyak." Methinks this is a linguistic issue -- could the term "Cognac" be used to mean "brandy" in some languages?

Incidentally, the Armenian side of my heritage is growing ever more jealous at this line of conversation. When I lived in Western New York, I used to keep a bottle of Ararat 18 yr brandy in the house to get me through the harsh Buffalo winters. Now that I've moved to Virginia, where liquor stores are still operated by the state, I can't find it anymore.