A protest was staged Monday outside the embassy of Russia in Hungary.

The demonstration was held in connection with the recent tragic murder in Armenia’s Gyumri city, and the subsequent incidents.

The picket was organized by a group of Armenian students from the Central European University (CEU) in capital city Budapest.

The students were demanding that Russia respect its international obligation specified by the Armenian-Russian agreement, and therefore hand Russian soldier Valery Permyakov over to the Armenian justice system.    

Non-Armenian students from the CEU also joined this protest.

In addition, the demonstration organizers handed to the Russian ambassador to Hungary an open letter, where the main demand of the picketers and the respective legal grounds were presented.

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; but the baby boy died in hospital on Monday, January 19.

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, 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 Wednesday, 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 charge.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia had stated that Valery Permyakov will face justice under Russian law, and this information had provoked a wave of protests in Armenia, especially in Gyumri and capital city Yerevan.