The plan to build a tunnel was reported before, but it was only a plan. Today, however, this plan became a reality....

3 January, 2001
Russian officials have expressed new confidence over building a tunnel under the sea to link eastern Siberia and the US state of Alaska. But is it really viable?
The dream of linking the American and Eurasian land-masses at their closest point - 40 km of sea in the Bering Straits - has been around for a long time.
BBC News | EUROPE | Russians dream of tunnel to Alaska


March 28, 2008
Billionaire will dig tunnel linking Russia & US



Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has fuelled talk of a massive tunnel between Europe and America by forking out $160 MLN on the world’s largest drill. The 19-metre giant will be the first drill capable of boring a four-lane tunnel.
The project would link Russia’s far eastern Chutoka region, which Abramovich governs, with America’s Alaska.

The tunnel was first mooted by the Tsars and then in the 1990s, but both times it was dumped because of high costs.
President Vladimir Putin is said to back the latest idea, as it would open up lucrative freight routes from Europe and allow Russian gas to be easily exported.
Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper reports that Putin has already had secret talks about the project with Washington.

The drill, which will take German firm Herrenknecht AG two years to build, will have to bore through the 55-mile wide Bering Strait.

The giant drill will dwarf the current record-holder – a 15 metre Chinese drill being used for a Yangtze tunnel.

Drugmaking stake sold
Meanwhile, Abramovich has sold a 17% stake in drugmaker Pharmstandart.
The company has announced that key shareholders Viktor Kharitonin and Yegor Kulkin have purchased the stake, believed to be worth about $US 250 million.
The company, which raised $US 880 millions when it listed in London and Moscow last May, has pharmaceutical plants in St Petersburg, Tomsk and Nizhny Novgorod.

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Why would the US be interested in a tunnel from Russia to Alaska?

Hell dat. Build your tunnel to Tehran.

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Mexico delenda est

We don't have to build a tunnel to Tehran because Russia and Iran are not separated by sea.

How will Russia "get Alaska back?" It is US soil.

I know I don't have the best sense of humor, but come on.

Look, NewGov. Russia and America are seperated by sea and that's the way we prefer it; we in America are familiar with Russia's history and if we could move your country, say, 80 miles further away, we would.

Send us your tired, your weak, and, most especially, your women. You can keep everyone else.

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Mexico delenda est

Alaska has oil, gold, silver, and other minerals. The US wouldn't sell Alaska if it needed to help the economy, it would increase mining and oil drilling up there.

But why are they building it? It's a railroad tunnel linking Nowhere, Siberia, to Nowhere, Alaska.

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