| April 2009 |
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Russia's envoy to NATO has dubbed the alliance's exercises due in Georgia in early May "insanity." 
Russia is preparing to celebrate Orthodox Easter, with churchgoers and even some nonbelievers going to churches on Holy Saturday to have paschal cakes and eggs blessed by priests. 
Election authorities in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi confirmed on Saturday that six candidates had been approved to run for mayor in the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics. 
The secretary of the Council of Defense Ministers of the post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States said on Saturday he saw no reason for uneasiness over NATO's upcoming exercises in Georgia. 
Russia will play the United States in the final of the under-18 ice hockey world championships after beating Finland 4-0 in the semifinals. 
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan will visit Russia next Thursday, the Kremlin press service announced on Saturday. 
Police in southern Russia have detained two men on suspicion of involvement in a series of blasts in Sochi that killed three people, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti on Saturday. 



