Today, at midnight in the Orthodox churches of the world, the joyful news sounded: "Christ is risen!" In the main Orthodox cathedral of Russia - the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, half an hour before midnight, the Easter worship began. He was headed by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II .

Svetlana Bakhmina, deputy head of the legal department of Yukos-Moscow OJSC, does not consider himself guilty and does not intend to ask the Russian president for pardon. This was announced by Ekho Moscow Lawyer Bakhmina Alexander Gofstein.

From April 22, Russia is switching to higher environmental requirements for cars-Euro-2, Interfax told in the press service of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. From April 22, a special technical regulation "On the requirements for emissions of automotive equipment issued in the Russian Federation, harmful (polluting) substances" comes into force. It involves a consistent introduction of higher environmental standards for cars.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II sent the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad (ROCS) to the Metropolitan of the East-American and New York laurel a letter in which he expressed support in his efforts aimed at reuniting with the church in the Fatherland. The Patriarch said this in an interview, which was today published by the newspaper "Trud" .

Anti -terrorism exercises in the Moscow metro ended with a positive result. The “terrorist” was detained, the “explosive device is neutralized,” Alexander Chekalin, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, told reporters today.

Thousands of Iraqis, detained as suspects, are kept in prisons in Iraq without charges. This was written on Saturday by the ASH-Shark Al-Ausat Mezharab newspaper with reference to the head of the Iraqi branch of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Baghdad Dzhanny Magadzeni. This circumstance is contrary to the human law recognized by international law and human freedoms, the UN representative emphasizes, RIA Novosti reports.

Two men from the American state of Georgia planned terrorist attacks on oil refineries and military bases. This is stated in the documents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations transferred to court and published on Friday in the city of Atlanta, Georgia.

Two women - refugees from Chechnya - declared an unlimited hunger strike, wanting to attract the attention of the authorities and society to their position. This was announced on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station by one of the starving Kulsun Shavkhalov. According to Shavkhalova, she with two daughters and two granddaughters has been living with children in the Center for temporary placement (CVR) of the Serebryaniki Personents in the Tver region for 6 years.

On Saturday, in the center of Moscow, in the subway right on the Pushkinskaya platform, Armenian was killed. According to Interfax, a source in the internal affairs department of the protection of the Moscow metro, the murder was committed at about 17:50. An unknown criminal, shaved, dressed in all black and high -top shoes, for no reason inflicted a resident of Moscow - an ethnic Armenian several stab wounds, after which he disappeared.

Two students of the professional lyceum and one unemployed beat four citizens of China, students of the Kostroma State University, a law enforcement source told Interfax. According to the source, "the incident occurred in Kostroma on the Yonezeskoy Street, in the yard of high school 5." "The attackers defeated national hatred, after which they disappeared. The victims were provided with medical assistance," the source noted. The employees of the OMON OF ATS of the region detained the suspects.

The largest block in the parliament of Iraq is the united Iraqi Alliance (OIA) today officially confirmed the nomination of Javad al-Maliki with a new candidate for the post of prime minister of the country. This was announced by the leader of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq Abdel Aziz al-Hakim.

The US administration on the eve of the war with Iraq in 2003 deliberately ignored the reliable intelligence data on the state of Iraqi weapons, since they contradicted political plans to change the regime of Saddam Hussein. The former high -ranking CIA employee who oversaw the operations in Europe, Tyler Dramheller, made such accusations against the White House.

The former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is again deprived of legal integrity. Such a decision was made on Friday by the Supreme Court of the South American country, ITAR-TASS reports. This time, the general is charged with 37 cases of abduction of political opponents of the regime in the framework of the so -called operation "Colombo". Thus, the ex-dictator may be interrogated and be against the court in connection with the involvement of these crimes.

April 22 marks the 136th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The mausoleum on Red Square will be open to the visit, Interfax was told in the Kremlin commandant’s office. The commandant’s office reminded that the admission of visitors to the Mausoleum is carried out every day from 10 to 13 hours, except Monday and Friday.

A dazzling fireworks under the works of world musical classics ended late in the evening on Friday of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Queen of Great Britain.