Moscow Mayor Sergei Sabianin confirmed in the early hours of today to the RIA news agency that tomorrow will be a public holiday, even though the armed mutiny by the Russian private military company Wagner has ended.

In the early hours of Saturday, as Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mercenaries entered Russia and were moving toward the capital, Mr. Sabianin announced that Monday would be a holiday for most Muscovites and called on them to stay at home for security reasons.

Prigozhin’s mutiny raised the specter of civil war, and security forces imposed emergency measures in Moscow, erecting barricades and closing roads.

The dramatic uprising by the mercenaries ended thanks to a mediation by Minsk; the Kremlin announced that Mr. Prigozhin would be allowed to settle in Belarus and the prosecution against him would be dropped.

However, Mr. Sabianin said today that his decision to declare a public holiday tomorrow stands.

Also, restrictions remain in place today on the major M-4 expressway in the Moscow and Tula regions of Russia, the Federal Road Network Service said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.

“Based on previous decisions made in the regions, traffic restrictions on the M-4 (motorway) in the Tula and Moscow regions remain in force,” the service clarified in its post.

A mutiny by thousands of heavily armed mercenaries of the Russian company Wagner, who were approaching the capital Moscow, was thwarted on Saturday, de-escalating the challenge to the Kremlin, after an agreement reached with Belarusian mediation in order, as its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said , to avoid bloodshed.