Representatives of the legal successors of the victims had asked for information on Permyakov’s possible being a member of a Satanist sect in Russia to be provided to the Armenian side. They also consider making a petition for the trial to be transferred to the court of the general jurisdiction of Armenia’s Shirak province.
But members of the public appear to have "boycotted" the offer of following the trial from tents, considering that it is wrong to conduct the trial in the territory of the Russian base.
Representatives of the legal successors of the victims had asked for information on Permyakov’s possible being a member of a Satanist sect in Russia to be provided to the Armenian side. They also consider making a petition for the trial to be transferred to the court of the general jurisdiction of Armenia’s Shirak province.
Before the trial it was announced that there would be limited seating in the chamber. It was said that media and members of the public could also follow the trial on monitors from tents put up outside the garrison military court at the Russian military base in Gyumri.