In Moscow on Tuesday - the birthday of Adolf Hitler - no special security measures will be taken, official representative of the Moscow police department Kirill Mazurin told RIA Novosti. "The police take into account that on April 20, extremist youth are trying to destabilize the situation in the city, however, the entire Moscow police will not switch to an enhanced version of service," Mazurin said.

A British military contingent may stay in Iraq for up to 10 years to help Iraqis maintain order and security in the country. According to the Independent, Brigadier Nick Carter, Commander of the British Armed Forces in Basra, said this. According to his estimates, it may take from 2 to 10 years to normalize the situation in the country - during this period a local police will be created, which will suit all groups and movements existing in the country.

The governor of the Kaliningrad region, Vladimir Yegorov, refused to accept the Golden Sledgehammer anti-prize awarded to him by the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers . This was reported to the correspondent of "Rosbalt" in the press service of the regional administration.

An unidentified person reported on Tuesday afternoon that the building of the Bolshoi Theater in the center of Moscow had been mined. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" in the press service of the Main Directorate of Civil Defense Emergencies of the capital. "A message about an allegedly planted bomb in the theater building on Petrovka Street was received at 14.38 Moscow time.

King Abdullah II of Jordan has postponed his trip to Washington, citing the need to clarify the US position on the situation in the Middle East and the status of the Palestinian territories, Reuters reports.

In Moscow, on Leninsky Prospekt near house 10, a passenger car and an ambulance collided, which was taking the victim of another accident to the hospital, Newsru.com reports with reference to Interfax. The accident happened around 9:20 p.m. last Monday. As a result of the collision, the ambulance overturned. The victim who was in it received another injury. The doctor was also injured.

The State Duma rejected in the first reading the bill "On the responsibility of federal executive bodies for ensuring the right of citizens of the Russian Federation to a decent life and free development" introduced by Deputy Sergei Glazyev. The decision on this was made at the plenary session of the State Duma on Tuesday. With the necessary 226 votes, the bill was supported by 133 deputies, against - 61, there were no abstentions.

Moscow hopes that the previous order of broadcasting in Russian will be preserved in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. It is reported by RBC.

The movement of metro trains along the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line of the Moscow metro from Kaluzhskaya station towards the center has been stopped, Gazeta.Ru reports. The station duty officer announced over the loudspeaker that traffic was suspended temporarily and for technical reasons, and passengers were invited to use ground transport.

On April 30, the Moscow City Court intends to consider a cassation appeal against the decision of the Basmanny Court of the capital to detain a shareholder of Group MENATEP Ltd. Michael Brudno. This was reported to the Oil Information Agency by his lawyer Anna Abushakhmina. On March 11, the Basmanny Court granted the request of the Prosecutor General's Office to detain Brudno, who was charged in absentia on November 10, 2003.

Chinese police have uncovered a gang of deaf teenage robbers who acted on the instructions of a brutal ringleader, Reuters reports citing Xinhua. The ringleader, 34-year-old Yang Song, and his 11 "sixes" received prison sentences from 11 months to 13 years by court decision. Gang members have been robbing stores since 2001 in Shaoxing Township in Zheyang Province. Most of the gang members were unemployed and out-of-school teenagers.

The Russian government has abolished 146 coordinating and advisory bodies under the Cabinet of Ministers, the DPI told reporters. The list of abolished bodies was approved by the Russian government decree "On streamlining the composition of coordinating, advisory, other bodies and groups formed by the government of the Russian Federation," RIA Novosti reports.

On April 20-21, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will pay a working visit to Moscow, RIA Novosti reports. He will arrive in Russia on Tuesday evening. It is planned that Berlusconi and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks in Moscow and take part in the opening of the first Italian bank in Russia - CJSC Banca Intesa Moscow.

Recently, all customs posts where Chinese imports are processed were instructed to increase the minimum customs value of imported goods from $0.2-1.4 to $3.5 per kilogram. It is reported by Kommersant. According to the leadership of the State Customs Committee, this measure will increase budget revenues by more than $500 million a year and protect Russian producers of consumer goods.

On May 19, the Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow will consider the lawsuit filed by Matrosskaya Tishina employees Bazanov and Fukalov against lawyer Henry Reznik, RIA Novosti reports. The claim was postponed due to the fact that Alexander Makarov, Reznik's representative, made six motions for the plaintiffs to provide a number of additional evidence in the case. The court granted all six motions. GUIN employees filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity.