The Moscow authorities are planning to tighten the registration regime in Moscow, Mayor Yury Luzhkov said, RIA Novosti reports. According to Luzhkov, after the terrorist act in the Moscow subway, "measures against illegal migrants, to say the least, will be toughened." "A decision has been made to drastically intensify the work of passport offices, district police to determine and expel all those who are illegal guests of the capital," he said.

The US Embassy in Moscow has issued an official warning to all US citizens in the Russian capital, advising them to avoid traveling on the Moscow metro for the next few days. This was reported to RIA Novosti by an official representative of the US State Department. According to her, as a result of the terrorist attack in the Moscow metro, none of the US citizens were injured.

During the attack on Friday in the Moscow metro, the head of the legal department of the CEC of Russia, Natalya Kiseleva, died. According to RIA Novosti, Saturday's meeting of the Central Election Commission began with a moment of silence. The deceased employee of the CEC left a 10-year-old son, and "the Central Election Commission is now obliged to take care of him," said the head of the department Alexander Veshnyakov.

Ivan Rybkin. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru On Saturday, the Central Election Commission registered Ivan Rybkin as a candidate for the post of president of Russia.

In St. Petersburg on Friday, the operational group of the department for combating corruption in public authorities of the operational-investigative bureau of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the North-Western Federal District detained the deputy head of the municipality N 63, Sergei Kupchenko, reports Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax.

The investigation into the explosion in the Moscow metro, which occurred on the stretch between the stations "Avtozavodskaya" and "Paveletskaya", was transferred to the FSB of the Russian Federation. According to RIA "Novosti" with reference to the words of the head of the FSB Public Relations Center Sergei Ignatchenko, this decision was made due to the fact that the prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on the fact of the explosion under articles 205 ("terrorism") and 105 ("murder") .

Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov takes a negative view of the decision of the State Duma Council to consider in February the deputies' initiative to increase the presidential term.

On Friday, US President George W. Bush named the people who were part of an independent commission to study materials on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The commission will have to find errors in the Iraqi dossier, on the basis of which the decision to start hostilities was made. The commission will be chaired by former Democratic Senator Charles Robb and former Republican judge Lawrence Silberman.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev canceled a protocol event scheduled for Saturday evening at the Azerbaijani embassy in Moscow in connection with the terrorist attack in the Moscow metro and will return to Baku in the afternoon, RIA Novosti reports. It was planned that on Saturday evening Ilham Aliyev would give a solemn reception at the Azerbaijani embassy in the Russian capital.

At the Moscow metro station "Avtozavodskaya", where an explosion occurred in the tunnel the day before, more and more flowers appear in memory of those killed during the terrorist attack. According to RIA Novosti, roses and carnations lie on the platform from the side of trains going to the center. It was from this platform that on Friday a train set off towards the Paveletskaya station, in the second carriage of which an explosion occurred.

A unique surgical operation has begun in the Dominican Republic - two-month-old Rebecca Martinez, who was born with two heads, is having her extra head removed. According to RIA Novosti, a medical group led by neurosurgeons from Los Angeles plans to perform the operation in 13 hours. Doctors will remove the second head, which has a partially formed brain, ears, eyes and lips.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has been awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of MGIMO Russia, RIA Novosti reports. On Saturday, MGIMO rector Anatoly Torkunov presented Aliev with the appropriate diploma, a black and blue-trimmed professor's gown and a professor's cap. "It gives me particular pleasure to host a former graduate of this institute, and now the president of Azerbaijan, within the walls of MGIMO," Torkunov said.

A unique surgical operation was successfully completed in the Dominican Republic - two-month-old Rebecca Martinez, who was born with two heads, had her extra head removed. Led by Los Angeles neurosurgeons, the medical team completed the operation in 13 hours. Doctors removed the second head, which partially formed the brain, ears, eyes and lips.

The head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Ivanov, believes that the terrorist attack in Moscow has political overtones and is connected with the upcoming presidential elections, RIA Novosti reports. Ivanov said that Russia "will not negotiate with terrorists." The minister also said that many prominent people, including US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, expressed their condolences in connection with the explosion in the Moscow metro.

The sixth Moscow International Sumo Wrestling Tournament starts on Saturday in Moscow at the Wings of the Soviets universal sports complex. According to RIA Novosti, the strongest athletes from Germany, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Armenia, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan will take part in the competition.