Russian soldier convicted of 2015 Gyumri massacre to be sent to Russian lail
Valery Permyakov, the Russian soldier convicted of murdering seven-member family in Gyumri in 2015 will serve his sentence in Russia, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports citing a representative of Russia’s North Caucasus Regional Military Court. “Of course, he [Permyakov] will serve his sentence in Russia,” said the official. It is not known yet in which court Permyakov will serve his sentence but it is known that the court receive the corresponding decision from an Armenian court on May 4. Earlier, Armenia’s Ministry of Justice denied reports that the Armenian side was discussing the possible exchange of the Russian jailed solider with Hrachya Harutyunyan, an Armenian bus driver arrested in Russia for a fatal accident near Moscow in 2013. Permyakov has been kept in custody at the Gyumri headquarters of a Russian military base in Armenia ever since he was arrested on the Armenian-Turkish border hours after the gruesome killings. A court in Gyumri sentenced him to life imprisonment in August 2016. Armenia’s Court of Appeals later upheld the guilty verdict
