YEREVAN. – Zhoghovurd daily has learned that Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, who is the accused in the brutal murder of the Avetisyan family in Armenia’s Gyumri city, is in the hospital of the 102nd Russian Military Base in Gyumri, the daily reported.  

“According to the same information, a neurology room in the military base hospital has opened especially for Permyakov. 

“In the words of the military base personnel, such special conditions were not established for the military base soldiers in the past, and all military received medical care under equal conditions. But Permyakov is kept in the hospital separately and under the conditions especially created for him,” Zhoghovurd wrote.

As reported earlier, 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 Gyumri on January 12; and the baby boy died in hospital on January 19.

Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the 102nd Russian Military Base in Gyumri, 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, and he is held in custody at the Russian military base.

The soldier is charged under Russian law, with “the murder of more than two people” and “desertion with a service weapon.” And 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. 

The motives for this murder are unknown to this day.