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A protest was staged outside the Armenian Prosecutor General's Office in Yerevan on Thursday. 

The protesters demanded guarantees that Russian soldier Valery Permyakov charged with murdering the Avetisyan family in Armenia’s Gyumri will be handed over to Armenian law enforcers. They demanded that the Prosecutor’s Office act transparently and make public the response to the letter sent to the Russian side.

They handed over a letter to Prosecutor General’s Office stating their demands.

Six members of one family, including a two-year-old child, were shot dead in their house in Gyumri on January 12. A six-month-old baby was hospitalized with stab wounds. He died in hospital on January 12. Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the 102nd Russian military base stationed in Gyumri, the main suspect in the murder, was detained by Russian border guards while attempting to cross the Armenian-Turkish border near Yerazgavors village in Armenia’s Shirak province. Permyakov is held in custody at the Russian military base. He was questioned and confessed to the crime. Permyakov is charged under Article 105.2 and 338.2 of the Russian Criminal Code (murder and desertion). Also, Armenian Investigative Committee brought a charge against Permyakov under Article 104 part 2 point 1 (murder of two or more persons) of the Armenian Criminal Code.