  Recent STAR data on the bulk observables in the energy range of the
Beam-Energy Scan Program at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider are analyzed
within the model of the three-fluid dynamics (3FD). The simulations are
performed with different equations of state (EoS). The purely hadronic EoS
fails to reproduce the data. A good, though imperfect, overall reproduction of
the data is found within the deconfinement scenarios. The crossover EoS turns
out to be slightly preferable. For this reproduction a fairly strong baryon
stopping in the quark-gluon phase is required. The 3FD model does not need two
separate freeze-outs (i.e. kinetic and chemical ones) to describe the STAR
data. A unified freeze-out is applied at all energies.
