Members of the Queen band will come to Moscow to stage the musical "We Will Rock You". This was reported to Interfax on Thursday by the organizers of the project. The premiere of the musical will take place on October 15 on the stage of the Moscow Variety Theatre. Lead guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, as well as band manager Jim Beach, will arrive in Moscow for a short visit on February 26.

The Jungle Book cartoon by Walt Disney Co. according to Rudyard Kipling's famous bestseller about the adventures of Mowgli, was named the most beloved cartoon of all time, AP reports. These are the results of a survey of the international network of rental and sale of video cassettes and DVD Blockbuster among 3,500 moviegoers. The 1967 film won even such recently released masterpieces as "Toy Story", "Finding Nemo", "The Lion King" and "Shrek".

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia completed the investigation and sent to court a criminal case against Zarema Muzhikhoyeva, who is accused of committing an act of terrorism near the Ginger restaurant in Moscow.

Moscow met with bewilderment and disappointment the decision of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to recall the country's ambassador to Russia Vladimir Grigoriev for consultations. "Such a decision can only cause bewilderment and disappointment. What is the point of politicizing even the most complex, but purely economic issues?" - a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry told Interfax.

A US National Guard soldier has been charged with trying to pass military secrets to al-Qaeda. Ryan Anderson, if found guilty, faces the death penalty. The charges were filed on February 12, but information about this has only become available now, reports the BBC. Anderson was detained shortly before his unit left for Iraq. It is assumed that he did not have time to transfer any information to Osama bin Laden, but he established contact with him via the Internet.

Logo CEC. From the site www.nyagan.ru The CEC of the Russian Federation does not see the grounds for the participation of presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin in television battles from London through teleconference. This was announced on Thursday by RBC by a member of the CEC of the Russian Federation Nina Kulyasova. According to her, in this case the principle of equality of the participation of all candidates in television battles will be violated.

Vladimir Putin at a meeting with "warriors-internationalists" said that "the time has come to stop all political fuss" around the events of 15 years ago. It is reported by RIA Novosti. "These events are subject to serious scrupulous, dispassionate analysis by politicians, historians and specialists," the head of state noted. "Another thing is also clear.

Outrageous professional Marilyn Manson had to settle out of court for the second lawsuit from a security guard, on whose face he rubbed his genitals at a concert, according to E! Last summer, a security guard from Minnesota turned to the star with such a lawsuit; in January, Manson's lawyers had to fight off a native of Detroit.

On the southern slope of Cheget, the search for the missing snowboarders from Moscow continues, RIA Novosti reports. On Wednesday afternoon, it became known that the signal taken from the helicopter by radar was not a radio beacon. According to experts, the direction finder reacted to the rock. Nevertheless, it is in this area that the main forces of rescuers are thrown.

Three kilograms 215 grams of industrial gold for a total amount of about 1 million rubles were seized in the Magadan region. As RIA Novosti was informed on Thursday by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District, a batch of metal was found by employees of the Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Magadan Region in the car of a local resident.

In Stavropol, an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, who transported an explosive device, was conditionally sentenced to three years in prison, RIA Novosti reports. According to the prosecutor's office of the Kirovsky district, former senior police sergeant Ali Tsoloev was detained in October 2003. During a search in his BMW car, traffic police inspectors found an improvised explosive device and six magazines for a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

Vladimir Putin. Filming RTR Deputies of the regional Duma of the EAO chose the winner of the contest "For the Best Valentine for the President", which was held among students of local universities, writes New Gazeta. The main prize - the singing hare - was received by the duet Zhenya Simonov - Lena Garshtein. They embroidered poems on a velvet heart: "All thoughts are busy with you - I love you, my Putin is dear!" Why exactly this opus became the winner is not explained.

The Ministry of Justice regarded as slanderous statements by the lawyers of Yukos shareholders about the unbearable conditions of detention of their clients and the use of torture against them, reports Ekho Moskvy. Yury Kalinin, Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation, stated this to Interfax.

Transval Park. Photo from the site www.technonicol.msk.ru The participants in the investigation of the disaster in the Transvaal have a fundamentally new version of its causes, Kommersant reports. Experts suspect that the support of the dome broke, unable to withstand the lateral dynamic blow. It could produce it both an explosive wave and a sound pressure from a disco passing in the water park. On Wednesday, a special examination was scheduled on this occasion.

Alexander Lukashenko. Photo by ar President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko agrees to the supply of Russian gas on the basis of Moscow. He stated this on Thursday at a meeting with the Belarusian government. “I agree to conclude an agreement on Putin,” he said. “Belarus, in turn, will make an inventory of Belarusian -Russian relations,” Lukashenko emphasized. "We will collect the necessary $ 200 million, take them from children, old people," he said.