The hearing date has not yet been scheduled.
Six members of the Avetisyan family—including a two-year-old girl—were shot dead, and a six-month-old baby was wounded in their house in Armenia’s city of Gyumri on January 12. The baby boy died in hospital after a week.
Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the 102nd Russian Military Base in the city, stands accused in this crime. Permyakov was apprehended by the Russian border guards near the Armenian-Turkish border on the same night, he was arrested on January 14.
The soldier is charged under Russian law, with “the murder of more than two people” and “desertion with a service weapon.” On January 21, the Investigative Committee of Armenia also filed a criminal charge against Permyakov, and with “premeditated murder of two or more persons.” The Russian soldier has accepted the charges.
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