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    Russia Beyond the Headlines
    Jan 20 2015

    Moscow and Yerevan to jointly investigate Gyumri murder

    16:08 January 20, 2015 Interfax


    An investigation against Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, who is
    suspected of murdering an Armenian family in the city of Gyumri, will
    be conducted in Armenian territory, Russian Investigative Committee
    spokesman Vladimir Markin said, referring to committee head Alexander
    Bastrykin.

    "When coordinating the work of investigative groups, Bastrykin and
    chairman of Armenia's Investigative Committee Aghvan Hovsepyan agreed
    that the parties would work jointly in order to ensure a
    comprehensive, complete and objective inquiry as part of the criminal
    cases opened in both countries," Markin told Interfax.

    Bastrykin "assured his counterpart that an investigation and a trial
    of serviceman Permyakov will take place exclusively in the territory
    of Armenia," Markin said.

    "The criminal inquiry and all procedural measures connected with it
    will abide by the norms of international law, the January 22, 1993
    Convention on Legal Aid and Legal Relations in Civil, Family and
    Criminal Cases, the March 16, 1995 Treaty between the Russian
    Federation and the Republic of Armenia concerning the presence of a
    Russian military base in the territory of Armenia, as well as the
    Agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Armenia
    on judicial and mutual legal assistance in issues linked with the
    presence of the Russian military base in the territory of Republic of
    Armenia, dated August 29, 1997," the spokesman said.

    "Today, the heads of the two countries' Investigative Committees also
    met with President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and informed him of the
    course of this joint inquiry. They assured him that the person guilty
    of this cruel murder would be punished with the utmost vigor of the
    law," Markin said.

    During his visit to Armenia, Bastrykin was also brought up to date on
    the progress made in the investigation opened against Permyakov,
    Markin said.

    According to earlier reports, a family of six, including a two-year
    old child, were murdered in Gyumri, northern Armenia, on January 12.
    The only survivor, six-months-old Sergei Avetisyan, was hospitalized
    with a stab wound. He died on January 19.

    Valery Permyakov, a serviceman from Russia's 102nd military base, who
    is deployed in Gyumri, was detained shortly after the attack. He is
    now on the territory of the military base. Criminal charges were
    brought against him on January 14 based on the Russian and Armenian
    Criminal Codes.

    On January 15, protests broke out in Gyumri. Their participants
    demanded that Permyakov be handed over to the Armenian justice system.
    Fourteen people, including five policemen, were hospitalized after
    clashes between the demonstrators and police.

    On January 18, Russian President Vladimir Putin called his Armenian
    counterpart Serzh Sargsyan to again extend his condolences to the
    victims' relatives and all people of Armenia in regard of the tragedy
    in Gyumri.


    http://rbth.com/news/2015/01/20/moscow_and_yerevan_to_jointly_investigate_gyumri_m urder_43005.html

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