Russian lawmaker demands return of Alaska, California fort and reparations amid US-led sanctions

[mystery-ak]

March 15, 2022 6:35pm EDT
Russian lawmaker demands return of Alaska, California fort and reparations amid US-led sanctions
Parliament member Oleg Matveychev listed his demands during a Sunday interview on a state-owned news program
By Louis Casiano | Fox News


A Russian lawmaker made an outlandish demand over the weekend that the United States return Alaska and a historic settlement in California, in addition to paying reparations to Russia over crippling American-led sanctions that have put Moscow's economy in a tailspin.

Oleg Matveychev, a member of the state Duma, outlined on Russian state television a set of demands for the U.S. and Ukraine after Kiv's "demilitarization is completed," the Express newspaper in the United Kingdom reported.

The demands include the return of Alaska, which the U.S. purchased from the Russian Empire in 1867 as part of the Alaska Purchase, and the former Russian settlement of Fort Ross, California, 90miles north of San Francisco.

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[Idiot]

Hmmmm  California....well.....lolol.

[Kamaji]

Hmmmm  California....well.....lolol.

You might have the makings of a deal there.  After all, Russia would get its "reparations" and Californians would get to live under an autocratic, kleptomatic government, like what they keep advocating for.  It'd be a win-win-win!

[Elderberry]

Russian lawmaker demands US hand over Alaska, part of California as ‘reparations’

American Military News  by  Liz George  March 16, 2022

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/03/russian-lawmaker-demands-us-hand-over-alaska-part-of-california-as-reparations/

A Russian lawmaker is demanding “reparations” from the United States for the Biden administration’s economic sanctions, including the return of Alaska and a portion of California.

“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,” Federal Assembly of Russia member Oleg Matveychev said on Russian state television on Sunday, according to the Daily Mail.

“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,” he continued.

When asked if he was specifically referring to Alaska and the former Russian settlement at Fort Ross, California, Matveychev said they both “belong to [Russia].”

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Anybody know whether Russia kept the American on the space station or did they get him down?

[Elderberry]

Anybody know whether Russia kept the American on the space station or did they get him down?

https://abc7.com/international-space-station-nasa-astronaut-will-not-be-left-behind-mark-vande-hei/11651637/

Russia will not leave NASA Astronaut Mark Vande Hei behind on the International Space Station, according to Tass, the Russian state-run news outlet.

Vande Hei will return to earth with the other astronauts on Russia's Soyuz Spacecraft on March 31.

[Wingnut]

He'll get off the Space Station and back to earth.  But will they let him out of Russia after he lands?

[Kamaji]

He'll get off the Space Station and back to earth.  But will they let him out of Russia after he lands?

Probably not.

[sneakypete]

Come and get 'em!

[The_Reader_David]

Perhaps if Russia again had its legitimate government headed by a Tsar from the House of Romanov...