On April 11 and 18, from six in the morning to six in the evening, restrictions on the movement of personal vehicles are introduced in Moscow. Public transport will work longer, and additional electric trains will be launched in the suburbs, NEWSRU.com reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. Significant restrictions are being introduced in the Central Administrative District.

The introduction by the EU countries at the 60th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights now taking place in Geneva of a draft resolution on the situation in Chechnya is an unfriendly and inappropriate step. The corresponding statement was made by Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Yuri Fedotov at a meeting with the Ambassador of Ireland to Russia Justin Harman, acting.

From an unemployed resident of the city of Vyazma, Smolensk region, criminal police seized more than 25 kilograms of explosives. This, as RIA Novosti reported on Saturday, was reported by a source in the Russian Interior Ministry. As the operatives established, the explosive - tol - was extracted from the shells of the Great Patriotic War. A resident of Vyazma kept it at home. Currently, he has been detained, and an investigation is underway into the discovery of explosives.

On the night of Easter festive services, from April 10 to April 11, the operation of public surface transport in Moscow will be extended to 3 hours 30 minutes, the metro - to 2 hours 30 minutes. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the press center of the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans, Muscovites will be able to use 118 bus, 18 tram and 48 trolleybus routes of Mosgortrans.

The prosecutor's office of Dagestan brought charges under two articles of the Criminal Code to one of the ideologists of Wahhabism, Magomed Tagaev, who was extradited from Azerbaijan to Russia. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax.

Ella Pamfilova, head of the human rights commission under the President of the Russian Federation, calls on the UN to immediately intervene in what is happening in Iraq, RIA Novosti reports. "It is clear that a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Iraq again, but on a large scale, and the United States, as an occupying power, is practically not fulfilling the obligations imposed on it by UN Security Council Resolution 1483," Pamfilova told reporters.

A major terrorist attack was prevented in Grozny. According to Gazeta.ru, this was reported to Interfax at the temporary press center of the Russian Interior Ministry in the North Caucasus region.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made a surprise visit to Iraq, CNN reports. “I came here not only as prime minister, but also as an Italian citizen, to congratulate all of you. I wish you a good Easter and thank you for what you are doing. We are proud of you,” the head of government said. “You are here to fulfill an important mission is to show that Italy is a country capable of bringing the principles of law to the world.

The police of Irkutsk guarded a huge memorial egg, RIA Novosti was told in the city department of internal affairs. The fact is that for several years in a row unknown "artists", or rather, hooligans, under the cover of Easter night, have been painting this three-meter-long building. Meanwhile, the egg is part of a memorial erected by a sculptor from Japan in honor of the many years of friendship between Irkutsk and the Japanese sister city of Kanazawa.

The leaders of the Armenian opposition Justice bloc and the National Unity party promise to continue mass protests until Armenian President Robert Kocharyan resigns. According to RIA Novosti, press secretary of the People's Party of Armenia, which is part of the Justice bloc, Ruzanna Khachatryan, said that the next opposition rally will begin on Freedom Square in Yerevan on Saturday at 18.00 local time (19.00 Moscow time).

Employees of the FSB department for Dagestan detained one of the ideologists of the invasion of the republic by Chechen fighters in August 1999, Magomed Tagaev. As a representative of the FSB told RIA Novosti, the detention of Tagaev, carried out on the territory of the Republic of Dagestan, was "the result of a complex and carefully planned operation." It is reported by Gazeta.ru.

In Chechnya, unknown people shot nine local residents, a source in the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs told RIA Novosti. "On Friday at 12.30 on the northern outskirts of the village of Serzhen-Yurt (Shali district), local residents found the bodies of nine men with gunshot wounds in a dried-up canal bed," the agency's source said. According to him, it has been established that eight out of nine men are residents of the Duba-Yurt settlement, the identity of the ninth is being established.

At 6 hours 55 minutes local time, an explosion occurred at the Taizhin mine, RIA Novosti reports. According to updated data, the accident occurred at a depth of 560 meters. “It was most likely to emit methane,” said Valery Korchagin, a representative of the Civil Defense and Emergencies Department of the Civil Defense and Emergencies. Mountain rescuers discovered the bodies of 42 dead miners. The fate of about 11 miners remains unknown, their search continues.

Two militants who participated in the invasion of gangs into the republic in 1999 were detained in Dagestan, a source in the republic's law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.

Spilled mercury was found in the building of the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University on Sparrow Hills in Moscow. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to ITAR-TASS. The limit of permissible concentration of poisonous liquid metal exceeds the norm by 40 times. According to the Main Directorate for Civil Defense and Emergencies, students and staff are being evacuated from the building. The spilled mercury was discovered Friday evening in the university's underground sewer.