A Russian soldier accused of murdering seven members of an Armenian family in Gyumri will be tried in Armenia but by a Russian military court, a senior Russian pro-government lawmaker insisted on Sunday.
Leonid Slutsky, the chairman of a State Duma committee on relations with ex-Soviet states, thus reaffirmed Moscow's refusal to hand over the suspect, Valery Permyakov, to Armenian law-enforcement authorities.
Slutsky announced the imminent completion of a Russian criminal investigation into the January 12 massacre after laying flowers at the graves of the Avetisian family members."As was requested by the Armenian side, the trial will take place at a military tribunal here in Armenia," he told RFE/RL's Armenian service (Azatutyun.am) in Gyumri. "Naturally, the verdict will be adequate."
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