The film "Skyfall" will be the last Bond series in which actress Judi Dench will star. The Daily Star reports. "Skyfall" (on the website kinopoisk.ru a version of the title "007: Skyfall" is given) is the eighth film in which Dench plays M, the head of the British secret service MI6 and James Bond's superior. She first played this role in the 1995 film GoldenEye. It is reported that Dench's character will die in the new film.

In Primorye, a large Amur tiger took a walk along the Vladivostok-Nakhodka highway. The incident occurred on the evening of Thursday, April 5, about one and a half kilometers from the city of Fokino, PrimaMedia reports. The predatory cat was spotted on the road by servicemen returning to their unit by car. According to eyewitnesses, the tiger walked calmly along the road, not paying attention to passing cars.

Media information about Alexander Kuzmin’s resignation from the post of head of the Moscow Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning does not correspond to reality. reports this Interfax with reference to a statement by the press secretary of the mayor of the capital Gulnara Penkova. According to RIA Novosti , the press service of the Moscow Architecture Committee refrained from commenting on Kuzmin’s possible resignation.

The Russian Ministry of Economic Development has lowered its forecast for GDP growth for 2012 from 3.7 to 3.4 percent. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the department, Elvira Nabiullina . According to her, the expected economic growth is reduced due to a lower forecast for investment growth. As Interfax notes , the Ministry of Economic Development has lowered the forecast for the growth of investment in fixed assets in 2012 from 7.8 to 6.6 percent.

On Thursday, April 5, representatives of the microblogging service Twitter filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco against five future defendants: manufacturers of software capable of creating spam mailings, and the spammers themselves, according to the company's blog. Twitter said its lawsuit is aimed at the "most aggressive" attackers who are intermediaries for the production of huge volumes of spam content.

The NHL has decided on all the playoff participants. On the night of April 6, it became known that the Washington Capitals club, for which Russian forwards Alexander Ovechkin and Alexander Semin play, as well as defenseman Dmitry Orlov, will take part in the Stanley Cup, among others. The official website of the league reports this. Washington defeated the Florida Panthers 4-2. One of the goals in this meeting was scored by Ovechkin, and Semin scored another goal from a pass from Orlov.

British singer Adele topped the list of the greatest performers of our time, compiled by Entertainment Weekly. The list includes a total of 30 names and titles of groups. Adele managed to beat such performers as Rihanna, Taylor Swift, The Black Keys, Drake, Jay White and Azealia Banks. The full list will be published in the issue of Entertainment Weekly, on sale April 6, 2012. To date, Adele's discography consists of only two studio albums.

The President of the South African state of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika, died on Friday, April 6, reports Agence France-Presse, citing doctors. The 78-year-old leader died of a heart attack. Bingu wa Mutharika became ill on the evening of April 5th. He spent two hours connected to a ventilator, a source at the hospital where the president died said. The Malawi government has not yet made an official statement about the death of the head of state.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected the motive of revenge in Moscow’s position in the case of Russian Viktor Bout , who was sentenced in the United States to 25 years in prison and a fine of $15 million for arms trafficking. reports this RIA Novosti . “In this situation, we do not want to take revenge, but to help Viktor Bout, who was absolutely undeservedly sentenced to 25 years in prison.

A helicopter that went missing in Tatarstan was found on the ground; the pilot, according to doctors, is dead. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to a representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Republic of Tatarstan. The helicopter was flown by pilot Valery Mayorov, born in 1961. Transport Bell 407 crashed in the Nizhnekamsk region of the republic. According to local residents, the helicopter that fell to the ground is on fire.

The deal for the sale of a batch of Moldovan weapons to Armenia, which provoked a scandal last fall, was carried out with gross violations. This conclusion was reached by members of a special parliamentary commission investigating the circumstances of the contract. At its meeting on April 5, the Parliament of Moldova decided to transfer the investigation materials to the Prosecutor General’s Office. Kommersant.MD reports this.

Crowded skies Belarus demands to reduce flights of Russian companies On April 5, Russia and Belarus were forced to schedule a new round of negotiations on the number of flights between the countries. Moscow proposes lifting restrictions and introducing “open skies,” while Minsk insists on an equal number of flights, fearing competition.

In the first quarter of this year, 19,724 residential purchase and sale transactions were registered in Moscow, which is 8.7 percent higher than the figure for the same period in 2011. This is evidenced by data from the Moscow department of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr). According to Rosreestr, 8,524 housing purchase transactions were concluded in March. This is 14.4 percent more than in March last year.

The Arbitration Court of Udmurtia declared the manufacturer of Kalashnikov assault rifles , the Izhmash concern, bankrupt. The company has introduced bankruptcy management. reports this RIA Novosti . The Izhmash bankruptcy claim was filed by the Izhstanko company, to which the concern owed 814 thousand rubles. The external monitoring procedure was introduced at the enterprise in August 2011.

CSKA Moscow will play with the Greek Panathinaikos in the Euroleague semifinals. On the evening of April 5, Panathinaikos, which won the tournament last season, beat the Israeli Maccabi with a score of 86:85 in the fifth match of the quarterfinal series and became the last participant in the Final Four of the tournament. The official website of the Euroleague reports this. CSKA made it to the Final Four on March 31 after defeating the Spanish Bilbao in four matches (series score 3:1).