Over 80 people injured in Moscow metro blasts remain in hospitals.

MOSCOW, April 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Some 81 people injured in the Moscow
metro blasts remain at the Moscow hospitals. The two metro blasts killed
40 people and injured 121 more people, the Emergency Situations Ministry
reported.
From 40 people who were killed in the blasts four people died already
at the hospitals - the Sklifosovsky First Aid Clinic, the Botkin Hospital
and the first city hospital. Two people remain unidentified in the
mortuaries number two and number four from 36 people killed in the
terrorist act.
Two people remain in extremely severe condition and 12 people in grave
condition, the Ministry of Health and Social Development said. As of
Friday evening, on April 2, 29 people got outpatient aid, 19 people were
discharged for outpatient treatment. On Sunday, April 4, 27 more people
sought medical advice. They did not come to a medical institution
immediately, deciding to cure at home. However, their state of health
demanded medical aid.
The investigation into these horrible crimes is underway and has
already advanced substantially.
The Federal Operative Headquarters of the National Anti-Terrorism
Committee reported that the masterminds and several perpetrators of the
terrorist acts had already been unmasked. Specifically, a suicide bomber
who detonated an explosive device at the metro station Park Kultury turned
out to be Dzhanet Abdurakhmanova (Abdulayeva), who was born in 1992 and
lived in the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan.
"The security services know the concrete masterminds of the recent
terrorist acts (in Moscow and Kizlyar). Some materials were obtained,
several people were detained and are under interrogation, material
evidence was gathered, several expertises for involvement of several
people in the crimes were conducted," Chairman of the Anti-Terrorism
Center and Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov said
earlier.
"The major theory that concrete gangs committed the terrorist acts was
confirmed," Bortnikov said. He noted that the Russian security services
intend to wage the struggle against terrorism to the very end.
The heaps of flowers are laying and the icons are placed on the
commemoration tables at the metro stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury.
Muscovites and Moscow guests are bringing more flowers and icons and are
lighting up commemoration candles.

.Patriarch, bishops congratulate most miserable people on Easter.

MOSCOW, April 5 (Itar-Tass) -- Easter gifts from the Russian Orthodox
Church were presented first to those who are badly in need of support.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill visited an asylum for disabled
children; Moscow bishops visited a hospice, a mental home and a clinic for
AIDS patients as well as other social institutions.
The patriarch presented bicycles, toys and medical equipment to
children's asylum No 15 in Academician Pavlov Street. Some 410 children
with mental disorders are being kept there. Along the staff personnel
sisters of mercy from the St. Dmitry Donskoy College and their 35
voluntary assistants take care of them. The patriarch was deeply impressed
by this visit - with what self-sacrifice staff employees and church
volunteers are taking care of severely ill children. "Some of them are
suffering from Down's syndrome, the others from cerebral paralysis, some
children cannot have any contact with the outer world and live some their
own life. Wonderful people are working there, including young people, who
spend their free time to the care for the children," the patriarch said,
addressing to the Christian believers after the Easter Vespers at the
Christ the Savior Cathedral. The patriarch was mostly moved by the humble
of heart words of an ordinary employee, who answered to the words of
gratitude from the patriarch that these children are already with the God,
"We are just on the way, but they are already in the Kingdom of God." The
deep faith is the foundations of all the world, the patriarch underlined.
"Why these young women and men are there among these miserable people,
bringing them such love and generosity. The faith is the strength that
comes to us when we are able to cede the central place to the God to
another person. The Faith transfigures positively the personality, society
and the world," the supreme Russian hierarch said. "The Faith creates an
absolutely another system of values," which is based on love, and no proof
is needed." "Where the proof is needed, there is no love, where the proof
is needed there is no self-sacrifice," the patriarch noted.
Easter gifts were presented at many social institutions on Sunday.
According to the long-standing practice of the Russian Orthodox Church,
almost each diocese takes care for hospitals, asylums or prisons.
On the eve of Easter the church service "Mercy" arranged a
fund-raising campaign at two Moscow supermarkets. According to the
service, 48 bags with gifts and about 83,000 roubles have been collected
for two days.

.US govt undecided about participation in Moscow VE-Day festivities.

WASHINGTON, April 5 (Itar-Tass) -- The U.S. government has not decided
yet whether U.S. officials will attend the 65th Victory anniversary
celebrations in Moscow on May 9, U.S. State Department spokesman Darby
Holladay told Itar-Tass.
The U.S. government will take a decision to this effect closer to the
remarkable date, he said.
The previous reports said that military units from the Soviet Union
allied countries in the anti-Hitler coalition will march for the first
time in a parade on Red Square on May 9. An army unit with the numerical
strength up to a squadron and a military orchestra are expected to
participate in the Moscow parade from the United States.
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