Amongst all the coverage today of the proposal by Kirill Dmitriev, including EIR's “Russia’s JFK File and the Putin-Trump Tunnel Linking Alaska and Russia,” that the U.S. and Russia collaborate to build a rail and road tunnel across the Bering Sea and between Alaska and Russia, of special note is that the New Voice of Ukraine, not known for favorable coverage of Russia, of Dr. Victor Razbegin’s proposal for the Alaska summit of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.
“Before a Putin-Trump meeting in Alaska, Razbegin described a plan: 4,000 km of track on the Russian side, 2,000 km on the American side, and 100 km of tunnel including portals. For service needs—ventilation and the like—the Big (Russia) and Little Diomede (the U.S.A.) islands would be involved. Energy would come from tidal power and hydropower on Siberian and Yakut rivers. The project could pay back in 15 years and take 7-8 years to build.”
Razbegin, from Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development, had publicized the tunnel project in an interview with the Federation for Universal Peace, as reported by PolitNavigator on August 14, 2025, the day before the summit:
“A joint breakfast between Putin and Trump could lead to a tunnel through the Bering Strait. A feasibility study for the construction of a 100-kilometer tunnel through the Bering Strait has already been created, the project is awaiting only a political decision by the authorities of Russia and the United States. This was stated by Victor Razbegin, Doctor of Economics, Director of the Interdepartmental Center for Integrated Regional Transport Projects at the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, in an interview with the Federation for Universal Peace, the correspondent of PolitNavigator reports.”
Razbegin said: “The project has been reported at a large number of international conferences, directly to the leaders of the United States and Russia. In general, support was received from both sides, though at different times. It was always a little off. There was good support from Russia, but there was a little lack of support from the United States, then vice versa. These swings have been swinging and swinging, and so far there has been no real political decision to start construction, although all the preliminary work has been carried out at a fairly serious level.”
Three days earlier, on August 11, the Schiller Institute’s Helga Zepp-LaRouche had issued a call to the two Presidents Trump and Putin: “Zepp-LaRouche Calls on Presidents Trump, Putin and Xi: The Bering Strait Tunnel Project Is the Perfect War-Avoidance Policy,” in which she had brought up Razbegin’s presentation to an international Schiller Institute conference:
“The Bering Strait Tunnel project has been studied and promoted over decades by leading scientific and political figures in the United States, Russia and China, as is documented in the attached set of articles from EIR magazine, dating back to 2007, as well as an 8-minute video prepared by Dr. Victor Razbegin, deputy chairman of the SOPS, Russia’s Council for the Study of Productive Forces, which won the Grand Prize for Innovation at the Shanghai World Expo 2010.”
It may be unknown why the Russian file on the JFK assassination included the 1963 drawing of a “Kennedy-Khrushchev World Peace Bridge ... Between Alaska and Russia,” nor why it is the New Voice of Ukraine that cited Razbegin’s timely proposal in August, but it is known that great problems require great ideas and great solutions. With two weeks until the Budapest Trump-Putin summit, it is time to make ideas great again.
