The Arctic Sea cargo ship with a crew of 15 Russians, which mysteriously disappeared on July 28 near the Portuguese coast, was discovered on the night of August 18 in the Cape Verde region. Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov reported to President Dmitry Medvedev that eight people, citizens of Estonia, Latvia and Russia, who were not members of the crew, were found on board the Arctic Sea.

In the regions Chechnya: the collapse of the modernization project August 18, 2009 Alexey Makarkin The death of human rights activists Natalya Estemirova and Zarema Sadulaeva in Chechnya is more discussed in the West than in Russia, where they are already accustomed to the fact that the situation in the Caucasus is far from stability, and recently it has become significantly aggravated.

In the opposition Process. Issue 7 August 18, 2009 Daily Journal Process: day 158-day 164th The key event last week was the prosecution of the extension of the detention of the accused in custody. Having put forward the traditional and very absurd reasons for their petition - the possibility that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev can put pressure on witnesses or eliminate evidence - prosecutors talked about one of the significant reasons for the new business.

In society Good well done as an answer to the Anglo -Saxons August 18, 2009 Dmitry Oreshkin Russian thinker Andrei Ilyich Fursov writes: “We need mobilizing knowledge, knowledge-stitch. Its creation is the key to Russian success in the 21st century. ” ( Russian success in historical retrospective: "Dobro fellow lesson." ) Other, go, it seems that knowledge is true or false, complete or fragmented ... but mobilizing, if you really want, there is propaganda.