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Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, left a warning on Wednesday: The US must remember that the state of Alaska was once Russian and that Moscow could begin laying claim to it.
Let America always remember: there is part of the territory of Russia, Alaska, ”Vyacheslav Volodin said, the newspaper reports. pro-Russian RBC. “So when you start trying to dispose of our resources abroad, you must remember that we also have something to lay claim to.”
The Chairman of the Duma also took the opportunity to ridicule Russia’s alleged meddling in the U.S. presidential election: “We [Moscovo] we do not interfere in your internal affairsand them [EUA] they have been saying for decades that everything that happens to them, like the election of their presidents, is due to Russian interference. You don’t respect your presidents that much. One of them was bad, now another fell off the bike, and here we are again.”
For his part, Deputy Chairman of the Duma Pyotr Tolstoy proposed referendum in alaska decide the fate of this North American state.
The territory of Alaska was purchased from Russia by the United States of America in March 1867. for $7.2 million (to date). On October 18 of the same year, the American flag was raised in Alaska for the first time.
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