# The hijacked Russian freighter (July 2009)?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 6, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijacked-russian-freighter-july-2009/573646 "2011-03-06T01:46:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anchuldigs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Anchuldigs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anchuldigs)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2011, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijacked-russian-freighter-july-2009/573646/1 "2011-03-06T01:46:38Z")

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> **[Was the cargo ship Arctic Sea really hijacked by pirates?](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/24/arctic-sea-russia-pirates)**
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> In July a Russian-crewed cargo ship vanished off the coast of Finland. Moscow claims it was hijacked. Now one of the accused exclusively reveals a very different version of events . . .

Remember this? Is there anything concrete on what happened?

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**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijacked-russian-freighter-july-2009/573646/2 "2011-03-08T12:20:22Z")

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Say guys, I felt like giving this one a _BUMP_ If I only had the ship’s name, I could keep checking Wikipedia for info, and reference links. But “that Russian ship what was hijacked off Finland but really wasn’t according to the Russians but yeah it really was says EU but how dare you says Russia” (this was how I recalled it from back then) isn’t something I can search easily, and that current article won’t give the ship’s name.

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**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijacked-russian-freighter-july-2009/573646/3 "2011-03-08T12:41:25Z")

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Oh wait, the ship’s name is _MV Artic Sea_, I finally read the quoted article. Heh.

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**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hijacked-russian-freighter-july-2009/573646/4 "2011-03-08T13:15:50Z")

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> [@Anchuldigs](#):
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> Is there anything concrete on what happened?

Let’s put it this way: the longest section in the [Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Arctic_Sea) on the event is “Media Coverage and Speculation”.