Moscow police will provide journalists with "safe passage" cards to ensure they can be identified among groups of protesters while covering rallies and riots, a police spokesman said on Friday.
Sergei Bagapsh, the president of the former Georgian republic of Abkhazia, will start a three-day official visit to Russia on Tuesday, the Kremlin said on Saturday.
The new Russian-U.S. arms reduction pact, to be signed on April 8 in Prague, will face problems on its way to ratification, Russian daily Kommersant said on Monday.