Sweden will significantly increase its nuclear energy production and will export it. This is stated in the short-term forecast for the development of Swedish energy for 2011-2013, published by the Swedish Energy Agency. Thus, the output of Swedish nuclear power plants in 2013 will increase by almost 19% (to 66 billion kW/h) compared to the output level in 2010.

Sweden will significantly increase its nuclear energy production and will export it. This is stated in the short-term forecast for the development of Swedish energy for 2011-2013, published by the Swedish Energy Agency. Thus, the output of Swedish nuclear power plants in 2013 will increase by almost 19% (to 66 billion kW/h) compared to the output level in 2010.

Russian stock markets ended trading on August 18 with a sharp decline. According to RBC , the leading indices sank against an extremely negative external background. At the end of the day, the RTS index fell by 4.79 percent to 1,584 points, and the MICEX index fell by 3.73 percent to 1,453 points.

The Moscow Otvka Sanatorium, which took place, in which mass poisoning of children, was an adult institution and did not have the right to take children to rest. This was reported on the website of RIA "Novosti" with reference to the press service of Rospotrebnadzor. The sanatorium did not have a sanitary and epidemiological conclusion on compliance with the requirements for the organization of recreation and recovery of children.

The Ministry of Economic Development proposes to establish a cash limit between legal entities and citizens, as well as to oblige trade and services to accept bank cards, Izvestia writes. According to the newspaper, the initiatives of the Ministry of Economics can be approved by the government and parliament for the fall, and will enter into force in 2012. The new rules will affect stores and salons, which are still not accepted for payment of the card.

In Uzbekistan, on September 1, the social network Muloqot.uz (“Communication”) is launched, which is designed to become a competitor to foreign analogues, reports REGNUM .

The Chinese experimental satellite of Shijian-11-04 (SJ-11-04), which was launched today, August 18, 2011, did not reach the calculation orbit due to the missile malfunction, the Sinhua agency reports. The launch was carried out from the Cosmodrome by Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province (Gansu) at 17 hours 28 minutes of local time (13 hours 28 minutes of Moscow time) using the Great Campaign-2S rocket carrier (Long March-2C, Changzhen-2C).

In the investigation of the massacre in the village of Kushchevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, 12 accused appear, the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reports.

In the presidential election in South Ossetia, which will be held on November 13, Russia will support the head of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov. According to Kommersant , Russia is not very pleased with the current leader Eduard Kokoita, and therefore will not allow him to bring his protege to the post of president.

In the Amur Region, the car shot down four people at a pedestrian crossing, Interfax reports. Three pedestrians died on the spot from injuries. According to the regional traffic police, the incident occurred in the Ivanovo district of the region. At the wheel of a Toyota Ipsum car was a woman who was sober. The downed woman and two men died on the spot. Another victim was taken to a hospital with an open thigh fracture.

In the south of Israel, unknown people fired at a passenger bus, which was heading to the resort city of Eilat. According to the Air Force , armed people opened fire on the bus, which drove near the border with Egypt. As a result of the attack, at least five people were injured. According to the Associated Press , several people were killed, but the exact number of victims is not called.

The Georgian director Robert Sturua intends to categorically abandon the artistic director of the Taganka Theater, if the Moscow Department of Culture offers him, Interfax reports. “I am associated too long, too warm and too close relations with Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov so that in such a situation I can take his place,” Sturua explained. The day before, a source in the Union of Theater Workers of Russia said that Sturua could lead the theater on Taganka.

VTB prefers the British courts Russian, since "in Russia there are not enough opportunities and tools to protect its rights." So one of the largest banks in the country, the controlling package of which belongs to the state, argued why he filed a lawsuit against the Rostelecom minority Konstantin Malofeev in the high court of London, and not one of the courts of Russian jurisdiction.

Near the Arkhangelskoye estate near Moscow, the construction hypermarket Leroy Merlin may appear, the Kommersant newspaper reports. According to the publication, a few months ago about 18 hectares, partially located in the security zone of the museum, were sold to the Auchan group of companies. According to the Penny Lane Realty agency, 18 hectares are too much to accommodate only construction hypermarket.

Events on August 19-21, 1991 are gradually being erased from the memory of Russian citizens-the conclusions came to this by the VTsIOM , which published the results of a public opinion poll on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the State Emergency Committee. According to the results of the study, most citizens (68-72 percent) no longer remember the participants of August 1991.