ArmInfo. The Armenian Court of Appeal refused to extradite Russian programmer Sergey Mironov to the U.S., rejecting the complaint of the Prosecutor General's Office about the decision of the first instance court to release the programmer wanted by the US authorities.   

ArmInfo. Citizen of Russia Sergey Mironov will be taken into custody if Armenian Court adopts such decision. Piotr Shchukin, the head of the Consular Department of the Russian Embassy in Armenia, said in response to ArmInfo's  question whether Mironov will be taken into custody if Armenia's Court of Appeal approves the protest of the Prosecutor General's Office against release of the Russian programmer that was put on the wanted list by U.S. government. 

ArmInfo. Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia has disputed the Court's decision to release of Russian programmer Sergey Mironov who is wanted by the U.S.  government, according to the Prosecutor General's Office.

ArmInfo.Within the next five days, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office will file a request to the US Department of Justice, demanding the Sergey Mironov  case files, Izvestia newspaper reports, citing Mironov's lawyer Karen  Nersisyan. To note, Mironov was recently detained in Armenia at the  US request on suspicion of arms trafficking.   

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ArmInfo. By demanding Russian  citizen Sergey Mironov's extradition from Armenia, the US tries to  drive a wedge between Moscow and Yerevan, says Frants Klintsevich,  First Deputy Chairman of the Defense and Security Committee of the  Russian Federation Council.