Posted on 01/22/2024 2:33:02 PM PST by marcusmaximus
New edict affects all of Moscow's historic holdings across three continents, including former imperial colonies in the US.
Russia has laid the groundwork for expanding its soft power across North America and Asia with a new decree Vladimir Putin signed last week.
The new order provides funds to search, register and provide legal protection to Russian properties abroad – including land and buildings located in former Russian Empire and Soviet Union territories.
Among the areas affected by the new decree is Alaska, which was sold to the United States in 1867 and still hosts communities with close links to Russia.
Parts of central and eastern Europe, Scandinavia as well as large chunks of Asia were also once part of the former empire.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Russia, Russia, Russia, Oh My!
Uuumm, NO.
Bidumbass will probably give it to him.
They need to repay for the beads we gave them.
Do we have a receipt for Alaska, in the National Archives?
Not a credible news site, why even post this here?
U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7 million. Despite the bargain price of roughly two cents an acre, the Alaskan purchase was ridiculed in Congress and in the press as “Seward’s Folly,” “Seward’s icebox,” and President Andrew Johnson’s “polar bear garden.”
Inuit and other Indigenous peoples had inhabited Alaska for thousands of years before the czarist government of Russia established a presence there around the mid-18th century. Russia first approached the United States about selling the territory during the administration of President James Buchanan, but negotiations were stalled by the outbreak of the Civil War. After 1865, Seward, a supporter of territorial expansion, was eager to acquire the tremendous landmass of Alaska, an area roughly one-fifth the size of the rest of the United States. He had some difficulty, however, making the case for the purchase of Alaska before the Senate, which ratified the treaty on April 9, 1867.
Six months later, Alaska was formally handed over from Russia to the United States. Despite a slow start in U.S. settlement, the discovery of gold in 1898 brought a rapid influx of people to the territory, and Alaska, rich in natural resources, has contributed to American prosperity ever since.
History.com.
Tell him it’s where ice cream is mined, and he’ll defend it to the death.
Zeepers gonna Zeep.
This kind of “journalism” is comedy.
The article admits that Putin explicitly states he lays no claim over Alaska.
But then the article cites a couple random guys on some telegram channel who push that angle. Guys with no connection to the government from the “two majors” telegram channel. As if their opinion means anything.
Then the headline writer decides to write the complete falsehood that the country of Russia is officially laying claim to it.
Of course few will read beyond the title and assume it is true, here on freerepublic.
You can read the proclamation on Tass.
Medvedev just made a claim to Alaska two hours ago and is threatening war with the U.S.
Maybe we should sell Alaska back to Russia, no money exchange, Russia assumes all the debt of the US, about 40 trillion or so ought to cover it.
“Russia lays claim to Alaska”
Good, at least he’ll allow DRILLING there.
The tyranical gnome is taking the cue from Tsi Singping.
Keep us updated on what the voices tell you
Up yours vlad...
What is price eggs today in Moscow?!
Sounds like a Steve Berry novel. Will the protagonist unearth 157-year-old documents that invalidate ‘Seward’s Folly’?
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