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.
An Alaska Railroad train carries tons of snow in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday, March 3, 2016, after traveling 360 miles south from Fairbanks. A Russian lawmaker is demanding the United States return Alaska and a California fort amid crippling sanctions against Moscow.
He also called for 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." "That was my next point. As well as the Antarctic," he said."We discovered it, so it belongs to us." Opponents of the sale labeled it"Seward’s Folly," referring then-Secretary of State William H. Seward, who was a proponent of American expansion.
The label failed to stick after 1896 when hundreds of thousands of people migrated to the territory in search of gold.
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