The UN Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution on Thursday condemning human rights violations in Turkmenistan, including discrimination against ethnic Russians, Uzbeks and other minorities in education and employment. According to RIA Novosti, 25 out of 53 countries voted in favor of the draft resolution proposed by the European Union and the United States, 11 countries voted against, with 17 abstentions.

In Brick, New Jersey, a woman gave birth in the back seat of her own car. Her husband was driving her to the hospital, probably lost control and the car crashed into a pole. Newly minted parents were thrown out of the car. The man died on the spot. The woman managed to stop a passing driver. He called 911 and climbed into the wrecked car, where he found a newborn boy. The child was not breathing.

The Zyuzinsky Court of Moscow did not close the newspaper of the National Bolsheviks General Line, the party's press secretary Alexander Averin told Interfax on Friday. "The Zyuzinsky prosecutor's office of the capital refused to support the claim of the prosecutor of the city of Kovrov, who demanded to close the newspaper. This is due to the fact that the plaintiff failed to provide the court with additional evidence that the newspaper incited ethnic hatred.

Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Yuri Fedotov said on Thursday that Moscow hopes that the results of the vote in the UN Commission on Human Rights on the draft resolution on Chechnya have closed this issue forever. According to RIA Novosti, Fedotov said: "Russia warned that such promotion of this topic is counterproductive." "This time it's become quite obvious," he added.

On Friday in broad daylight in the center of Moscow, an armed robbery was committed at a currency exchange office, RBC reports. A checkpoint near house 22 (or 28) on Myasnitskaya Street was robbed. An unknown person, threatening with a weapon, took $30,000 from the cash desk of the exchange office and fled in a foreign car. The guard fired several shots at the departing car. According to another version of the incident, a man who was leaving the exchange office was robbed.

The Duma Committee on Industry, Construction and High Technologies was instructed to consider information on the certification system for attractions, as well as on state control over their operation. According to RIA Novosti, Alexander Rosenbaum, State Duma deputy from the United Russia party, voiced this protocol instruction at the plenary session on Friday.

The first talks without intermediaries between the Americans and the leaders of the Sunni rebels took place in Fallujah, AP reports. So far, negotiations have been conducted through the mediation of city officials. Maj. T. V. Johnson of the Marine Corps, leaving for negotiations, said that he would try to give a chance to diplomacy and this is very important. The other side was represented by 11 Iraqis - 10 of them were in business suits, one was in national clothes.

On April 15, on the night of Thursday to Friday, the only Jewish cemetery in the Stavropol Territory was desecrated in Pyatigorsk, the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights reports. The organization was informed about this fact by the Council of the Pyatigorsk Jewish community "Geula" Rabbi Shertil Shalumov. On the eve of the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Nazism, 14 graves were desecrated, including those of Russians who went through the Great Patriotic War.

Fifteen conscripts who left military units arrived in Moscow on Friday for protection at the Committee of the Union of Soldiers' Mothers. This was announced on Friday by the chairman of the Committee of the Union of Soldiers' Mothers Valentina Melnikova, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. According to Melnikova, among the arrived soldiers-fugitives are representatives of all power structures: the armed forces, internal troops, railway troops, the border service of the FSB of Russia.

The problem of human trafficking threatens the national security of Russia, the leadership of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation believes. This is reported by the Newspaper news feed with reference to Interfax.

The appearance of a recording of Osama bin Laden's address, which allegedly speaks of a possible truce with Europe and a deadly war against the United States, indicates the intention of international terrorists to split the anti-terrorist coalition, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said. It is reported by RIA Novosti.

The work of three attractions "Surprise" was suspended in the capital, the head of the Moscow Committee for Culture Sergey Khudyakov told RIA Novosti. According to him, "we decided to suspend the operation of three Surprise attractions and will not launch them until we develop additional security measures for their operation.

Over the past day, at least 15 Iraqis have died in violent clashes in Fallujah and as a result of the bombing, Reuters reports, citing eyewitnesses and doctors. Another two dozen people were injured. The Americans lost at least one armored vehicle, eyewitnesses reported. US Marines launched an operation in Sunni-populated Fallujah on April 5 after the brutal killing of four Americans working for a private security firm.

In the city of Ust-Kut, Irkutsk region, a bus with 27 people in it overturned on Friday, Interfax reports. All passengers were returning from the funeral. At the turn, due to ice, the driver lost control, the bus first skidded, and then it fell on its side. 21 people were hospitalized, several were treated on the spot. According to the doctors of the central regional hospital of Ust-Kut, the issues of accommodation in the hospital of the arrived passengers of the bus are now being resolved.

Russia's largest aluminum producer, Russian Aluminum, is ready to invest $500 million in the construction of an aluminum plant in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, but will not start the project until the completion of the Boguchanskaya HPP is resolved, Reuters reports, citing the owner of Basic Element, which controls Rusal, Oleg Deripaska. According to Deripaska, these investments will create a plant with a capacity of 150,000-300,000 tons of aluminum per year.