“Especially for the celebration of Easter, they prepared and brought to Pushkin Square in Moscow an Easter cake weighing 900 kilograms, designed for 5,000 people! A huge Easter cake? Cool, yes! The priest solemnly blessed a large colorful cake, walked around it, waved water at more spectators, and the cake began to be cut and distributed to everyone. This is where it started...

The Russian national team is obliged to win the teams of Austria and Sweden, given the tournament situation that has developed in the Group G of the qualifying cycle of the 2016 European Football Championship. This was stated by the head coach of the Russian national team Fabio Capello. “We had to have two points more in our asset, since we were obliged to beat the Moldova team (1: 1) in October last year. We are not enough for these two points.

The Perm Ampar players on their field with a score of 1-0 beat the Moscow CSKA in the match of the 23rd round of the Russian Championship among the teams of the Premier League. The only ball of the 59th minute was scored by Igor Kireev. Odudev of the current champions of the country, the Perm team interrupted the unimaginable series, which lasted since October 2014 and amounted to 11 matches. The army team, in turn, lost the third match in a row, the League press service notes.

“For Putin and his entourage, the main issue remains the partial lifting of European sanctions against Russia, introduced in July last year after the downing of a Malaysian Boeing over the Donbass. Those sanctions were introduced for a period of a year, and it is unrealistic to lift them before the expiration of this period: this will require consensus of all 28 EU member countries, which is impossible to achieve.

The Ministry of Economic Development is preparing a draft amendments to the law on joint -stock companies, the newspaper Vedomosti writes. The project, developed according to the publication, on behalf of the Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, sharply reduces the number of transactions - large and with an interest for which the preliminary approval of shareholders or the board of directors is needed.

The acting mayor of the city of Berdsk, the Novosibirsk Region, Andrei Mikhailov spoke out against direct elections of the heads of municipalities, suggesting that through this procedure the West may try to influence the situation in the country. Mikhailov said that, according to his information, Western special services actively use the election period to destabilize the situation in Russia, the Berdsk online portal reports.

“The set of problems that the Ukrainian authorities have to solve is enormous. And it was not a revelation to anyone that the existing state bureaucracy cannot solve these problems or even propose ways to solve them. And the Ukrainian authorities went to the extent of attracting a large number of young successful people from business to government agencies, who often had no experience of working in government agencies at all.

The leader of the unregistered Party of Progress and the founder of the Corruption Fund, Alexei Navalny, filed another complaint to the European Court of Human Rights, considering that the court decision on the lawsuit of the vice-mayor of Moscow Maxim Liksutov was unfair, violated the right to freedom of speech and had a “boring effect” on journalists and activists engaged in public investigations.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the dialogue on global problems at the Summit of the Big Seven without the participation of the Russian Federation is unlikely to be effective, Interfax reports. At the same time, he noted that representatives of Russia will not be specifically imposed to participate in it, but "open for any cooperation." "The president has repeatedly said that we do not mean someone to impose in any formats.

In Siberia on Monday, 70 forest fires were recorded on an area of ​​9695.2 hectares, the press service of the Forestry Department for the Siberian Federal District reports. The area of ​​forest fires in the region over the weekend increased by more than 12 times - from 0.8 hectares.

President of Poland Bronislav Komorovsky got into a traffic accident, moving to retro-trames as part of his election campaign. The incident occurred in the city of Konstantinuv-Luda. The tram on which Komorovsky rode came off the rails, reports Dziennik.pl . “Many, if something similar happened to them, said that this is a provocation,” Komorovsky joked after the incident. It is reported that the retro tram moved very slowly, the speed did not exceed 15 kilometers per hour.

On Preobrazhenskaya Square in Moscow, the construction of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord ended. This portal "Interfax-religion" was reported on Monday by the curator of the program for the construction of Orthodox churches in the capital, State Duma deputy, adviser to Patriarch Kirill on construction issues Vladimir Resin.

At the resort of Reness in the Netherlands, the police detained several dozen tourists from Germany, who arranged a brawl and a mass brawl in a drinking establishment. When trying to pacify the hooligans, several policemen suffered. Up to 75 Germans participated in the mass fight. 14 of them were arrested, writes Ad.NL. According to preliminary data, on Sunday night, German tourists arranged a boyfriend in Renessa.

Researchers from the University of Michigan found that more than a third of motorists intend to read, watch TV or work during trips in unmanned vehicles. Such a pastime, as stated in the report , will turn into a constant or frequent manifestation of rocking syndromes for the owners of such cars.

Volkswagen has changed prices for its most popular model in the Russian market - Polo sedan. The car has become less than 33-97 thousand rubles, depending on the configuration. Now the base Volkswagen Polo Sedan with an 85-horsepower engine in the Conceptline configuration costs 505,000 rubles instead of the previous 538,000 rubles, and a version with an engine with a capacity of 105 hp. It is offered at a price of 554,900 rubles (minus 40 thousand), reports Wrom.ru.