The health condition of Seryozha Avetisyan, a six-month-old baby who has survived of the Jan 12 Gyumri tragedy, is beginning to slightly improve, Armenia's Health Care Minister Armen Muradyan said during a government meeting on Thursday.
Now the baby is in the intensive care unit of the Holy Mother Hospital. His condition is grave but stable. The doctors are mostly concerned about the boy's brain as he was in a state of shock for quite a long time. The kid is being fed by means of a tube and will stay connected to a system of artificial respiration for a few more days.
A family of six persons was killed in Gyumri on Jan 12. The suspect is Russian serviceman Valery Permyakov, who has been caught and is now being kept in the 102nd Russian military base. On Jan 14 Armenia's Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan said that they had not considered asking the Russians to give Permyakov to the Armenian authorities, but following protest actions near the Russian base later in the day, he said that Permyakov would be tried in line with Armenian and Russian laws. He also said that the trial would be public and that the criminal would be punished in the territory of Armenia.