The Russian Information Agency Novosti begins Hotline coverage for Sunday, April 11, 2004.
Easter, the greatest Christian holiday, is celebrated on April 11 this year by all Christians of the world.
MOSCOW
* Patriarch Alexis II of Moscow and All Russia will hold the Great Paschal evening service in the Christ the Savior Cathedral at 4 p.m.
* The Moscow international house of music will host the opening of the third Moscow Easter festival held under the auspices of the Russian culture ministry and the Moscow government. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov will attend the ceremony. (7 p.m., 52 building 8 Kosmodamianskaya Embankment, the Ye. Svetlanov Grand Hall; tel/fax 933-75-59).
TALLINN
* A delegation of the Estonian parliament's foreign affairs commission, headed by commission chairman Marko Mikhkelson, will leave for Moscow. In the course of the working visit, that will last until April 14, the delegation members will discuss with Russian colleagues the prospects of development of Estonian-Russian relations in the wake of Estonia's joining the EU and NATO.
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