Calling for reparations over economic sanctions, a Russian state TV channel called on the United States to give up Alaska and California’s Fort Ross.
In the 18th and 19th century, Alaska and California’s Fort Ross were part of the Russian empire following the foundation of the trading monopoly known as the Russian-American Company. While Fort Ross was sold to a private owner in 1841, Alaska was sold to the United States for $7.2 million back in 1867.
Taking a jab at the West’s sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, a Russian member of parliament demanded reparations and the return of these historic settlements to Russia.
“We should be thinking about reparations from the damage that was caused by the sanctions and the war itself, because that too costs money and we should get it back,” Kremlin’s spin doctor Oleg Matveychev said on Sunday Evening With Vladimir Solovyov.
“The return of all Russian properties, those of the Russian empire, the Soviet Union and current Russia, which has been seized in the United States, and so on.”
After the host asked the politician if he was specifically referring to Fort Ross and Alaska, Matveychev added: “That was my next point. As well as the Antarctic. We discovered it, so it belongs to us.”
Meanwhile, TV host Solovyov, whose villas in Europe were seized amid the invasion of Ukraine, made nuclear war threats as he said the West should be given an ultimatum.
“I still think that those who took our money should be told ’you have 24 hours to unfreeze our funds or else we’ll send you what you know we’ve got,’” he said.
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