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    NEW SITUATION IN GYUMRI MANSLAUGHTER CASE

    Hakob Badalyan, Political Commentator
    Comments - 03 February 2015, 18:33

    The Russian Interfax Agency has informed that agreement has been
    reached between Armenia and Russia over the trial of Valery Permyakov
    accused of the manslaughter in Gyumri in the garrison court of the
    Russian military base.

    After the manslaughter the Armenian prosecutor announced, including
    for calming the angry public, that Permyakov will be tried in Armenia.

    And the public was angry because a few hours after catching the
    criminal it was announced that handing him to the Armenian jurisdiction
    is out of discussion.

    So far the investigation has not answered the questions of the Armenian
    citizens on the manslaughter and jurisdiction. It has caused more
    questions, including how Permyakov appeared in the Russian base after
    the Russian border guards had found him when the Russian border guards
    are supposed to hand him to the Armenian side. Even the prosecutor
    general has announced about this obligation.

    However, the Armenian and Russian authorities are not speaking about
    it. It is clear that the Russians do not want to speak and the Armenian
    government does not want to anger the Russians.

    And the obviously unlawful and undignified situation continues when
    Russia violates the law of Armenia, its state and national dignity.

    In this setting, information comes on an agreement that Permyakov will
    be tried in the court of the military base. It is not ruled out that
    this news is an attempt to check the Armenian public's reaction to
    understand whether it keeps the potential for protest that existed in
    Gyumri on January 14 and 15 and which was clamped down by the police.

    Incidentally, the policy actions continued with use of another method.

    The participants of the January 14 and 15 actions were invited one
    by one to the police to find out who threw stones at the policemen.

    Obviously, the purpose was to intimidate people, dissuade them from
    attending future massive events.

    Apparently, the purpose of the publication by Interfax was to check the
    outcome of the clampdown to find out what results the explanatory work
    has produced in order to determine the intensity of the next clampdown.

    At this point the possible limit of this intensity is rather high. For
    example, if Permyakov's trial is taking place in the Russian military
    base, obviously additional problems of transparency of the trial and
    accessibility to public will occur. Moreover, provocations during the
    trial are not ruled out which will force the Russian side to limit
    public access to the trial in the territory of the military base.

    The society will thus lose sufficient levers of control over the trial,
    which will enable manipulations with the trial, covering up everything
    that the Russian side will want to.

    Interestingly, a few hours after the news of Interfax the Armenian
    prosecutor general's office announced that Gevorg Kostanyan has applied
    to the Russian prosecutor general requesting to hand the case of murder
    of the Avetisyan family to the Armenian law enforcement agencies. It
    is interesting whether Chaika's answer will differ from the news on
    Interfax or whether this is the case when Saturday started earlier
    than Friday.

    http://www.lragir.am/index/eng/0/comments/view/33580#sthash.yOZQPG01.dpuf

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