Thousands of Italians, including prominent political figures, gathered today in Rome to conduct a demonstration for the abolition of the death penalty throughout the world. Participants in the action require an undershishes to immediately impose a moratorium on the execution of this punishment measure.

In Moscow, no incidents related to security during Easter services were recorded, a representative of the information department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate said on Sunday of RIA Novosti on Sunday. According to him, about six thousand policemen provided the rule of law on the territory of 243 capital Orthodox churches during festive worships. In total, about 20 thousand law enforcement officers worked in Moscow on Easter night.

The British Ministry of Defense went to an unprecedented step, allowing fifteen who returned from captivity to British sailors to sell their stories to the media. “Current military personnel do not have the right to enter into financial transactions with the media,” the Ministry of Defense says in the official statement of the Ministry of Defense.

In the suburbs on the Simferopol highway, five cars collided in the region of 50 km, including a route taxi, an Interfax correspondent reports from the scene. The route taxi, the following along the Tula-Moscow route, turned over as a result of the accident. Among the passengers - two victims who escaped with light bruises, there are no victims. According to the correspondent of Interfax, the road strip at the place of the event of icing.

Cosmonauts Fedor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov, as well as the American space tourist Charles Simony, feel good, Interfax was told on Sunday in the medical support group of the flight management center. "According to the report of the astronauts, they finish the first day of flight with good health. An adaptation to zero gravity conditions is going on. The astronauts have slept and several times they had a meal," said the representative of the Central Administrative District.

The Easter appeal of the Pope Benedict XVI KO "Cail and the world" ("Urbi et orbi") will show more than 100 television channels from 67 countries of the world, the Italian media note. At the same time, a large march will be held in Rome, the participants of which achieve the abolition of the death penalty throughout the world. The action, the participants of which are going to seek to fulfill their requirements through the UN, are timed to the Easter celebrations, Interfax reports.

The British The Sunday Times published a fragment of the book by Martin Sixmit, who for several weeks conducted a journalistic investigation of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. As part of the investigation, the Sixmit visited Moscow. He talks about his meeting with a former intelligence officer who expressed his readiness to show the journalist a secret “laboratory 12”, directly related to Litvinenko’s poisoning in November last year.

In Russia, on behalf of the President, a draft concept of demographic policy for the future was prepared until 2025. This was announced by First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with the Sunday time program of the first Channel, broadcast today into the territory of the Far East. “We have a very acute demographic situation, I would say a screaming demographic situation,” said the first vice -prime minister.

Most Russians approve the tightening of punishments in violation of traffic rules (traffic rules) and hopes that such measures will lead to a decrease in the number of accidents on the roads, studies of sociologists show. The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted on March 16 in the first reading a bill tightening punishment for violation of traffic rules.

More than 15 thousand people intend to go on April 14 to the "march of consent" as part of the action organized by the youth movement "The Young Guard -" United Russia ".

The Union TMA-10 spacecraft, which started in the night at 21:31 Moscow time from Baikonur, successfully separated from the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle, the representative of the flight management center told RIA Novosti . "A ship with a crew of the 15th expedition and the fifth space tourist, one of the founders of Microsoft, Charles Simoni, separated from the carrier, the crew’s well -being is good," the agency’s interlocutor noted.

On the coast of the Caspian in Kazakhstan, seals continue to die, mainly young animals. The total number of dead animals reached 266, the Ministry of Emergency Situations (Ministry of Emergencies) of Kazakhstan said. "The total number of dead seals as of the evening of Saturday was 266, the bypass of the coastal zone is ongoing," RIA Novosti said on Sunday in the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies.

Japanese scientists have learned to use salmon skin for the manufacture of artificial blood vessels. According to the Minity newspaper, a group of researchers has developed a technology for obtaining collagen, which is used as raw materials for the production of artificial vessels, from salmon leather. This is the first case in science when it was possible to create vessels for a person from collagen, the raw materials for which were sea inhabitants.

The blessings of the ringlers of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior announced the beginning of the Great Vespers. The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II headed tonight the worship of the great Easter Vespers in the main cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church . The Patriarch was served by bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church , representatives of the Orthodox churches, governors and abbess of monasteries, priests of Moscow temples in festive red vestments, Interfax reports.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation will further cooperate with the British side in the investigation of the case of Alexander Litvinenko, says Andrei Mayorov, deputy chief of the Office of the Prosecutor General’s Office for the investigation of especially important cases. "Given the analysis of the data obtained in the UK, and the evidence that is in Russia, we will have mutual cooperation with the British side," Mayorov said on the air of the NTV channel.