Moscow's Sheremetievo airport opens new terminal May 1.

MOSCOW, May 1 (Itar-Tass) -- Moscow's international airport
Sheremetievo is opening a new passenger terminal on May 1, the airport's
director, Mikhail Vasilenko, told the media earlier this week.
The new terminal - E - has been linked with the terminal F (at
Sheremetievo-2) by a special gallery. In May, the E terminal will be
connected with terminal D (Sheremetievo-3). An integral space for air
passengers will be created.
Starting from May the throughput of the southern part of the
Sheremetievo airport (terminals D, E and F) will reach 25 million
passengers a year, Prime-Tass reports.

.Up to 40,000 to demonstrate in Moscow on May 1.

MOSCOW, May 1 (Itar-Tass) -- May 1 street processions and
demonstrations in Moscow will gather up to 40,000. A total of 4,500 police
and Interior Ministry troops will be patrolling the streets to maintain
law and order, the deputy chief of the Moscow police force, Vyacheslav
Kozlov, has said.
Five demonstrations, three marches and eleven rallies are to be held
in the city.
"According to the organizers' requests submitted to the Mayor's Office
the events will gather an estimated 40,500 participants," Kozlov said.
By tradition Moscow's trade unions will hold the largest
demonstration. At 09:00 their street procession will begin along Tverskaya
Street towards Tverskaya Square, where a festive rally is expected to
bring together 25,000.
An estimated 3,500 supporters of the Fair Russia party will march from
Trubnaya Square to Pushkinskaya Square to stop in front of the office of
the national daily Izvestia for an hour-long rally. The Communists will
gather in Kaluzhskaya Square to march to Teatralnaya Square for a
2.5-hour-long rally by 7,000.
Some 800 followers of the Yabloko party will demonstrate in Lubyanka
Square, and 1,000 or so supporters of the Liberal Democrats will
demonstrate For Russia's Progressive Development in Pushkinskaya Square.
Also, there will be some demonstrations and pickets devoted to "not
very festive" themes, such as those against "aggressive US and NATO
policies", and others, expected to draw the public's attention to Moscow's
ecological problems, protest the violation of citizens' rights in the
sphere of urban construction, land management, ecology, the administration
of justice and the housing and utilities sector.
A special coordination center has been formed at the Moscow police
office for the period of May holidays under the chief of the city police
force Major-General Vladimir Kolokoltsev.
"The columns of demonstrators will be accompanied by reinforced police
patrols. OMON crack police reserves have been created just in case of a
sudden worsening of the situation," the Moscow police force said. "All
sites of rallies will be inspected by police and trained dogs before hand,
fenced off and surrounded by frame metal detectors."
The Moscow police department said that throughout the holidays the
Moscow police will follow special procedures and rules, as the city will
see many special events, including those devoted to the 65th anniversary
of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
"The Moscow police have good experience of maintaining law and order
during such high-profile occasions. All solutions and techniques have been
tested more than once," the police source said.

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