Writing on his X page, Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO and special presidential envoy for investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Donald Trump, who will be meeting in Alaska on Aug. 15, should commit their countries to developing cooperation in the Arctic and beyond.
“Born as Russian America—Orthodox roots, forts, fur trade—Alaska echoes those ties and makes the U.S. an Arctic nation. Let’s partner on the environment, infrastructure, and energy in the Arctic and beyond,” Dmitriev wrote on August 9. Dmitriev included with his post a picture of railroad tracks extending in the direction of Alaska’s high mountains.
Also posted in the comments section of Dmitriev’s X account is a simple post by the Schiller Institute’s Daniel Burke, “Time for the Bering Strait Tunnel,” to which Dmitriev responded: “Possibly yes.”
