Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian State Duma, threatened to take back Alaska from the US in retaliation for the seizure of Russian assets. Russian lawmakers loyal to President Vladimir Putin have threatened to claw back Alaska from the US if Western countries continue to impose sanctions as punishment for the war in Ukraine. Russia’s most senior lawmaker Vyacheslav Volodin warned Wednesday that Kremlin could claim back the state, which was sold to the US in 1867. Decency is not weakness,” said the speaker of the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, during a parliamentary session. “We always have something to answer with. Let America always remember, there is part of its territory… Alaska.”
He warned: “When they start trying to dispose of our resources abroad, let them think before they do so that we also have something to reclaim.”
Alaska.”
The US purchased Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for $7.2 million — or $142.2 million in today’s money — as part of an unpopular treaty orchestrated by then-Secretary of State William Seward, which was ridiculed in the press as “Seward’s folly.”
The gold-rich territory became a state in 1959.
The US purchased Alaska from Russian Tsar Alexander II in 1867 for $7.2 million, and the territory became a state in 1959.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy taunted Russian politicians on Twitter.Twitter/Governor Mike Dunleavy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has implored Western allies to sell Russian assets, including foreign real estate and yachts belonging to sanctioned oligarchs, to pay for the recovery of his country’s decimated economy.
Another Duma Deputy Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy — a great-great grandson of “War and Peace” author Leo Tolstoy — went so far as to propose holding a referendum in Alaska.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, on Thursday responded to the Russian lawmakers’ saber-rattling insinuations with a cheeky taunt.
“To the Russian politicians who believe they can take back Alaska: Good luck,” he tweeted.
Following the lawmakers’ statements, billboards declaring “Alaska is Ours!” sprung up in the Russian city of
انتقد الرئيس الروسي فلاديمير بوتين وحلفاؤه مصادرة الدول الغربية للأصول الروسية وتجميدها.
جاءت التهديدات الأخيرة بعد ظهور لوحات إعلانية في مدينة كراسنويارسك الروسية ، معلنة أن "ألاسكا لنا!" ذكرت المنفذ الإخباري المحلي NGS24.
تم إنشاء اللافتات من قبل شركة محلية تسمى "ألاسكا" تقوم بتصنيع المقطورات.
أوضح موظف في صانع المقطورات أن مدير الشركة "وطني للغاية" و "قرر إظهار أننا مع الوطنية" من خلال اللوحات الإعلانية.