Armenia political analysts do not predict any transformation of protests related to tragedy in Gyumri into political actions

So far, the public unrest after the massacre in Gyumri is not political, Armenian political analysts believe. However, in their opinion, the incident may affect the Russian-Armenian relations.

On January 15, after the funeral of the Avetisyan family, Gyumri and Yerevan hosted mass protests, where clashes with the police occurred. The main protesters' demand was that the accused Valery Permyakov should be tried in Armenia.

In the opinion of Sergey Minasyan, a political scientist and the deputy director of the Institute of the Caucasus, believes that no political force in Armenia seeks to politicize the situation after the massacre in Gyumri.

According to his version, the protests in Armenian cities were spontaneous and broke out under the effect of the shocking murder, aggravated the position of the Russian military authority, who refuse, despite the existing legal arrangements, to give the alleged criminal out to Armenian authorities.

In his turn, Ruben Megrabyan, another political analyst, believes that further developments in Armenia depend on the behaviour of the authorities of Armenia and Russia.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.