Russian serviceman, convicted of murdering Armenian family, extradited to Russia

Valery Permyakov, a Russian serviceman convicted of murdering a 6-member family in the Armenian city of Gyumri, has been extradited to the Russian Federation – Armenian Justice Ministry reports.

Back on 3 May, a Justice Ministry spokesperson confirmed reports regarding the ongoing talks on Permyakov’s extradition. Then on the following day, 4 May, the Russian court ordered that Permyakov would serve his sentence in the homeland.

As the Armenian Justice Ministry explained, the extradition agreement was based on the 1998 Moscow Convention on the extradition of convicts for further service of sentence.

The Armenian side has to content itself with Russia’s pledge to provide information on Permyakov’s whereabouts (where he is and how he serves his term of imprisonment) upon Armenia’s request.

The aforesaid has stirred up negative reaction among Armenian social media users:

“Permyakov was caught in Armenia, he was caught for the murder he committed in Armenia. We shouldn’t care, to what extent those factors fit in the RF Constitution. We aren’t in the RF and personally for me their constitution is less significant than our one… Don’t you have any dignity?”

“We live in Russia.”

“It turns out that the Republic of Armenia, an independent and sovereign state, cannot punish the scoundrel who murdered its citizens. I wonder, who can guarantee that Permyakov wouldn’t be released in a few years, when people start to forget about this incident? No one can guarantee that.”