The Animals, the one-hit band “House of the Rising Sun,” whose story began and ends with a fake, will perform in Moscow. The Animals owe everything in the world to a poor girl who, by the will of fate, became a prostitute in a New Orleans brothel called the House of the Rising Sun. The heroine of the old song, whose dad was a card player and whose mom was a dressmaker who made her blue jeans, apparently had a hard life.

11 April 2007, 04:13 Lipatov became head of the financial committee of the RFU Chairman of the board of directors of Moscow Lokomotiv Sergei Lipatov became head of the financial committee of the RFU . Soviet Sport reported this on Wednesday.

April 11, 2007, 10:05 Volvo showed the car of the future Swedish designers are creating something incredible in future hybrid cars. For example, all machine controls will be on a small removable console. On the outside, all wheels will be equipped with their own electric motor and rotate 90 degrees, which will greatly facilitate maneuvering and parking. They will be controlled via wires without any mechanical connections.

April 11, 2007, 20:01 Eni completely bought an oil field in Alaska Oil and gas company Eni SpA, Europe's fourth-largest oil company, bought the Nikaitchuq field in Alaska from Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Previously, the company already owned 30% of the shares. Investments are expected to reach $900 million, the company’s press service reports.

Serious changes are about to happen in the life of the famous Italian model Alessia Marcuzzi. The reason for them was her lover, the English Chelsea goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini, who must change jobs over the next three to four months. According to the girl herself, she is very tired of the three-hour flights from Rome to London, which she is forced to do at least once a week.

The fan violence that took place in Italy before and after the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final between Manchester United and Roma continued in England. The return match between the two teams, which took place on Tuesday at Old Trafford in Manchester, was once again preceded by a massive brawl between fans and police. According to some reports, up to 100 police and about the same number of Roman ultras took part in the clashes, some of whom were later arrested.

A serious problem has arisen in the relationship between the boss of the Renault Formula 1 team, Flavio Briatore, and his fiancee Elisabetta Grigoracci. According to the girl, she does not know what to give her lover for his birthday. The fact is that Flavio, whose fortune amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars, already has everything. “It will be very difficult for me to please him, because he already has everything I wanted to give him,” 26-year-old Elisabetta suffers.

April 12, 2007, 11:59 Business Tax plane The progressive scale of income tax in Russia will not be revived in the near future. Ivan Nikolsky In the near future, the progressive scale of income tax in Russia will not be revived. The Duma rejected the corresponding initiatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia.

April 11, 2007, 2:55 pm Science Text size A A A Taiga warmed the Earth Forest plantations in northern regions accelerate global warming Alexey Paevsky The Russian north turned out to be one of the central players in the “market” of global warming. It turned out that forests, which cool the Earth in tropical latitudes, in the north, on the contrary, lead to additional heating of the atmosphere.

11 April 2007, 06:30 Medvedev: Smith must lead SKA to gold in the second year Chairman of the Board of Directors of SKA, Deputy Chairman of the Board of OJSC Gazprom Alexander Medvedev sets the new coach of the club Barry Smith the task of becoming a champion in the second year. “If you don’t set ambitious goals, then what was the point of starting all this fuss?” Medvedev told Sport Express.

When a curious foreigner begins to torture me: what, after all, is happening in Russian politics, I usually quickly fall into despair - it is absolutely impossible to explain many things to a person of a different political culture. Well, for example, when a visiting American political scientist or journalist says something like: “No, wait, Evgeny, you think that Ivanov (Petrov? Sidorov) is going to do such and such, but how can that be?!

April 11, 2007, 19:54 Business Three unhealthy billions 25% of funds allocated for the national project “Health” were spent with violations Ekaterina Mereminskaya The statement of Rosfinnadzor that national projects are being implemented with a minimum of violations, not in vain, seemed overly optimistic to experts. Only recipients of funds were distinguished by increased honesty, and abuses by managers were an order of magnitude greater.

10:27 (April 11) Russian Foreign Ministry is dissatisfied with Iranian air defense exercises near the Bushehr nuclear power plant The Russian side expressed bewilderment to Tehran in connection with the training firing conducted by Iranian air defense forces on April 6 near the nuclear power plant under construction in Bushehr, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said on Wednesday.

11 April 2007, 02:13 Slutskaya will be in Russia during pregnancy Bronze medalist of the 2006 Olympics Irina Slutskaya is pregnant. According to the Associated Press, Slutskaya is leaving the ice show in the United States to be at home during her pregnancy. since 1999 Slutskaya has been married to fitness trainer Sergei Mikheev .

Business Budget bargaining has become irrelevant During the transition to a three-year budget, the State Duma managed to defend the right to approve forecasts of macroeconomic indicators affecting its revenues Ivan Nikolsky During the transition to a three-year budget, the State Duma managed to defend the right to approve forecasts of macroeconomic indicators that affect its revenues: GDP growth and inflation rates.