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Putin ally believes Russia should reclaim Alaska if Russian assets are seized to rebuild Ukraine [1]

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Date: 2022-07-07

If some Russian officials had their way, Sarah Palin could someday actually see Russia from her house. Why stop at restoring the Soviet Union? Why not restore the Russian Empire to its former glory? After all, Putin has compared himself to Peter the Great, the tsar who expanded the Russian Empire.

In 1725, Peter ordered navigator Vitus Bering to explore the North Pacific for potential colonization opportunities. Under Catherine the Great, Russia established its first permanent settlement in Alaska in 1784, a year after annexing the Crimean Khanate. And now Russian officials are incensed after Canada and some other Western countries indicated that they were ready to go along with a proposal by Ukrainian leaders to use seized Russian assets to help pay the estimated $750 billion bill to rebuild Ukraine.

On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that they were working on a "legal framework" that would allow the EU members to use assets from Russia and Russian oligarchs for Ukraine's restoration. "I think it is a matter of justice to consider this issue," she said.

That didn’t sit well with Russia’s lower house speaker, Vyacheslav Volodin, a Putin ally. He warned on Wednesday that Washington should remember, before freezing or seizing Russian assets, that Alaska previously belonged to Russia.

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