'A highly anticipated project' for a tunnel connecting Russia and the US.
The idea of a tunnel connecting Russia and the United States across the Bering Strait is being actively discussed.
According to RT on October 20, Kirill Dmitriev, Director of the National Investment Fund and Special Representative of the Russian President for Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation, stated that the idea of building a tunnel connecting Russia and the United States is being actively discussed in the West.
"News of a Putin-Trump tunnel connecting Russia and Alaska, Eurasia and the American mainland, has spread widely. President Trump called the idea 'interesting.' Mr. Zelensky doesn't like it. This topic has been covered by the biggest media outlets," Dmitriev wrote on social media platform X.
RT reports that a project to build a tunnel across the Bering Strait, connecting Russia and Alaska – a US state – has been proposed by the American infrastructure company Boring Company, founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk in 2016. Thanks to modern technologies, the tunnel could connect Asia, Europe, and the US via the Bering Strait. The project is expected to cost at least over $8 billion. According to Russian projections, the tunnel could be completed in less than eight years.
According to media reports, the tunnel between Chukotka (Russia) and Alaska (USA) will be twice as long as the Eurotunnel between France and the United Kingdom.
Earlier, US President Donald Trump had called the idea of creating such an infrastructure very interesting.
"That's an interesting idea. We need to think about it. We recently built a good road in Alaska. It will give us the right to mine many kinds of minerals. And we will get a share of all of this – a significant share, because we made it possible," the White House chief replied to a journalist's question about building a tunnel between Russia and the US, after a meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on October 17.
The initiative to build a tunnel between Russia and the United States has also been highly praised by Western media. The Independent, a British newspaper, described the project as "ambitious," stipulating the construction of "a 112-kilometer-long rail and highway transport line, with an estimated cost of around $8 billion and a completion time of 8 years."
The Washington Post noted that although proposals to build a bridge or tunnel across the Bering Strait have been made for decades, "they have not been seriously considered due to high costs, a lack of significant trade between the U.S. and Russia, and geopolitical antagonism between the two countries."
