Russia and the US to sign agreement on construction of tunnel from Chukotka to Alaska - Putin's envoy Dmitriev
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The Russian Federation and the US will sign an agreement on the design of a tunnel between Chukotka and Alaska on June 5. According to Dmitriev, this will be one of the major infrastructure projects between the two countries.
On Friday, June 5, Russia and the United States will sign an agreement on the design of a tunnel between Chukotka and Alaska. This was stated by Kirill Dmitriev, a special envoy of the Russian dictator Putin, UNN reports with reference to Russian media.
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According to him, this will be one of the major infrastructure projects between the two countries.
"As for the tunnel. We will have news tomorrow: we are signing an agreement that we are continuing the design of the tunnel. The tunnel will happen,"
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In October, Kirill Dmitriev proposed a tunnel project that would connect Russia and Alaska across the Bering Strait. According to him, the project would cost over $65 billion if built using traditional methods, and less than $8 billion if using Elon Musk's The Boring Company technologies.
Construction could take less than eight years. US President Donald Trump called the idea interesting.
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